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This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title : MASH Researcher
• Job Location : Shire Hall, Block 4, 4th Floor
• Salary : £25,979 - £27,334 per annum
• Hours per Week : 37.00
• Contract Type : Fixed Term
• Duration : Fixed term until the 31st of March 2025
• Closing Date : 07 / 07 / 2024
• Job Requisition Number : 6747
• This post is not open to job share

We are currently recruiting for MASH Researcher to join our Early Help team on a fixed term basis until 31st March 2025.

Reward and support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following :

Right child, right support, right time, every time

We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an

award-winning workforce.

Gloucestershire Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that :

Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s services… significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to join an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About the role

The Early Help MASH Researcher will be part of the wider Early Help Triage Team. This is an existing position which involves gathering confidential and sensitive information from our Early Help database to support MASH enquiries being undertaken. These enquiries are required to enable a multiagency team to ensure effective decision making resulting in the most appropriate response to support families with the right intervention at the right time.

About you

The post holder must have excellent communication skills and be able to illicit information from records. It is vital the post holder can work within a fast-paced environment and work within tight deadlines. The post holder will need to be able to record information clearly and accurately and have a good knowledge of ICT use. It would be beneficial for the post holder to have an understanding of Early Help.

How to apply

Interviews will be held w / c 15th July.

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable amount of applications.

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here :

Additional Information

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This position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.