Family Support Worker - Family Solutions - Early Help Team

Location
Job type Contract
Salary Up to £13.94 per hour
Consultant Kamruz Zaman
Call +44 7476 562823
Reference HQ00110184_1598457544

Sanctuary Social Care is currently looking for experienced and dedicated Family Support Workers to work full-time in Dudley, within the Early Help Team. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in Children's Services.

The pay rate for these locum Family Support Worker jobs is paying £13.94 per hour (Assignment rate) and are initial 3-month contracts.

2x full-time Family Support Workers in Family Solutions to work across any of the five family centres.

Duties:

  • Carrying out high-quality Early Help assessments, develop and implement high-quality Early Help Family Support plans.
  • Working in partnership with families to ensure that they are provided with the right support at the right time to promote the welfare of children and young people living within the family.
  • Reducing the risk of abuse and neglect and the need for statutory social care intervention.
  • Proactively engage and support the most vulnerable and challenging children, young people and their families to strengthen the family and improve their outcomes, develop their resilience and reduce dependency upon specialist services.
  • Delivering a 'Think Family' approach, ensuring that all services working with the family are coordinated and work effectively together whilst maintaining a focus upon the safety and wellbeing of the children and young people.
  • Implementing, monitoring and reviewing family support intervention plans, including the delivery of evidence-based parenting programmes, activities and group work sessions to strengthen family resilience.

Requirements of the Family Support Worker:

  • Professional qualification relevant to work with children and families at NVQ3 or above.
  • Good Literacy and English writing and numeracy skills level 3 and above
  • Evidence of continued learning and development Good level of IT skills and application
  • Experience of working with children, young people and families at risk of statutory intervention.
  • Experience of working with families with multiple and complex interrelated problems.
  • Experience of delivery of evidence-based parenting programmes or interventions or a willingness to undertake training to deliver these.
  • Experience of carrying out risk and needs assessment and the development, coordination, implementation, monitoring and review of Family support plans
  • Experience of working in a multi-agency setting/environment.

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Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.