Specialist Short Breaks & Family Support Worker

Specialist Short Breaks and Family Support Worker – Full-time (36 hours)

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join a specialist short break and family support service delivering excellent and innovative services to disabled children and their families in Enfield.

The team is part of Enfield’s Service for Disabled Children. In addition to social care, the Service includes education professionals and works closely with health service, local voluntary organisations, parents and children to ensure the highest quality service is provided.

You will be part of this multi‑agency team delivering short breaks and family support services and must:

• Have a proven ability to work with disabled children and young people who have complex needs in a professional setting.
• Provide advice and support to families in terms of practical care and offer support and guidance in the care and management of children with complex disabilities.
• Plan, deliver and review activity groups and play and leisure activities for disabled children and young people with complex needs.
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Have specialist skills to communicate with disabled children and young people.
• Build effective partnerships with parents/carers and other professionals to achieve positive outcomes for disabled children and young people.
• Have energy and enthusiasm and be able to work flexibly between 7 am – 9 pm Monday – Friday, and alternate weekends between 8 am – 5 pm on a rota basis, at the Centre, in family homes and in the community.
• Demonstrate skills and knowledge in working with disabled children and their families and in organizing short break activities, including the supervision of staff.

You will be offered regular supervision, and there are excellent training and professional development opportunities.

• For an informal discussion or to arrange a visit to the team, contact Clare Redrupp on .
• If you have any difficulties accessing this information, contact Maria Evangelou at ma

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office‑based working for most roles.
• Interest‑free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services – a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax‑free bikes for work.
• 1 month paid sabbatical for Children’s Social Workers.

Enfield’s Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best and deliver high‑quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people.

“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment”.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.