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Family Support Worker - Maternity Cover
- 33,381 - 36,322
- Temporary, Full Time
- Closing in 362 days
- Family Action
Key Tasks & Responsibilities:
1. Continuously assess the needs of children, young people, and their parents; supporting a multi-agency approach to assessment and planning.
2. Ensure you have an understanding of, and comply with, Family Action’s procedures for promoting and safeguarding the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults, undertaking risk assessments and placing children at the centre of your work at all times.
3. Work in a variety of settings, in particular the home environment, to develop realistic and achievable action plans, in consultation with children, young people and their parents, which are based on their assessed needs and written in a way that is easy for them to understand.
4. Agree targets, in consultation parents and children, and monitor, evaluate and measure progress against them. Capture evidence of the distance travelled in terms of positive changes, using the Family Star (outcomes measurement tool).
5. Work with partner agencies to achieve improved outcomes for families. Communicating effectively; drafting and submitting reports to multi-agency meetings in a time manner; and working collaboratively with multi-agency professionals.
6. Provide a range of support (both on a one-to-one basis and in groups), using various parenting programmes and evidence-based interventions, based on the needs of the family and the appropriateness of the intervention in line with those needs.
7. Conduct yourself as an accountable professional; actively participating in supervision, training and appraisal processes and ensuring your knowledge, skills and practice is of a high standard.
8. Maintain accurate and up to date case records in line with best practice, Family Action’s policies & procedures and our safeguarding standards.
9. Attend, as required, a range of different multi-agency meetings and participate in, and actively contribute to, the development and delivery of multi-agency plans. Attend team meetings as required.
10. Be responsive to challenge, advice, feedback and direction as part of your continuous development.
11. Embrace and implement Family Action’s Equality & Diversity Policy in every aspect of your work and positively promote its principles amongst colleagues, service users and other members of the community.
12. Comply with Family Action’s Health and Safety and Data Protection policies and protect your own and others’ health, safety and welfare.
13. Work flexibly as may be required by the needs of the service and carry out any other reasonable duties as required.
For more details and to apply contact Gosia.Gladys@family-action.org.uk or 01624 819 178.
