Job Overview
Job Purpose:
The Client is looking for a Senior Family Support Worker who will ensure whole family, multi-agency outcome focused support plans which respond to the needs of families (and individual family members) and provide effective tailored, timely and sequenced interventions. The Senior Family Support Worker will also be ensuring children and young people are safeguarded by identifying and addressing child protection issues and concerns with colleagues as appropriate.
Main Responsibilities:
- Oversee delivery of early help assessments with families and other professionals, which identify individual needs of all family members and family dynamics.
- Ensure families are empowered to access services through support with calls and referral forms, accompaniment to service appointments, and advocacy on behalf of families where appropriate.
- Deliver and manage a key worker for families – which involves working with all family members and other professionals to develop, coordinate and deliver whole family support plans, including regular reviews of progress.
- Manage the delivery of family support work and evidence based interventions with children, young people and families through group work and one-to-one support, and ensure timely access to interventions provided by other agencies.
- Ensure practitioners work persistently to empower, challenge and support families to achieve goals, providing practical ‘hands on’ support, and building families’ resilience.
Job Detail
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Offered Salary£21.77 PAYE £27.18 Umbrella Rate
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Career LevelLevel 3
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Experience5 Years
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QualificationCertificate
