Family Support Worker
Family Support Worker
Warrington Council are looking for a Family Support Worker to join their team.
The successful candidate will be working 37 hours a week over flexible working between the hours of 9 and 6, to support children and families to have supervised family time.
Responsibilities:
- Assigned to a family and remain with them for the duration of their session.
- Record the interactions, provide advice if requested and only intervene if necessary to ensure a child/young person's safety.
- Observe, monitor and factually record the Family Time sessions of the children/young people, with their parent/carer - ensuring that the children and families feel supported to enjoy quality time together.
- Follow safeguarding protocols to ensure the situation is swiftly responded to, to ensure the safety of children and young people.
- Ensure any safeguarding concerns are immediately reported to a senior colleague as per protocol.
- Liaise with other professionals as it may be necessary to enable decisions to be made to ensure the child/young person's safety moving forward.
- Provide advice and guidance to parents/carers to support their care and interactions with the children/young people during the session.
- Review information about the families' circumstances to ensure they are aware of the needs, risks, level of supervision and support they need to provide.
- Contribute to the development of the service by listening to family's feedback, sharing information within team meetings and participate in training.
- Plan own diary and work independently.
- Transport children to and from some family time sessions.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Must be a full licence car user and have business insurance.
- NVQ Lvl 3 in Child Care or equivalent.
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and experience of direct family support work (1-2 years on-the-job skills and knowledge development) and the statutory responsibility of the Local Authority to ensure Children's needs are met.
- Full clear Enhanced DBS.
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If you are interested, please call Chris Richardson on 01772 208964 or email me your CV - Christopher.richardson@servicecare.org.uk
If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £250.
The benefits of working with SCS:
- A specialist dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact.
- Exceptional referral bonuses - £250 per referral placed in to work!
- An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
- Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
- Payroll service twice a week.
- Ltd and PAYE payment options available.
- Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.
- Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.
- DBS disclosures provided via fast-track online services free of charge.
- Start: ASAP
- Duration: 3 months +
- Rate: £15.00 - £15 per hour
- Location: Warrington, England
- Type: Contract
- Industry: Other
- Recruiter: Service Care Solutions Ltd
- Contact: Chris Richardson
- Tel: 01772 208964
- Fax: 01772 471473
- Email: to view click here
- Posted: 2024-05-03 13:16:27 -
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