Family Support Worker

As a Family Support Worker, you will join our Families Plus Team in supporting families with children aged 5-18 to make and maintain changes in their lives. You will be skilled at engaging families quickly, creating purposeful, professional relationships and agreeing realistic aims and objectives.Building on their existing strengths to get through difficult experiences, our support helps families to continue to use what they have learned once the Families Plus involvement ends.‘What will you be doing?  It will be your responsibility to carry out whole family assessments, providing advice and guidance to families where necessary. By ensuring the regular monitoring and reviewing of Early Help plans, you will update needs where appropriate in accordance with safeguarding procedures.  You are responsible for managing your own caseload of work, ensuring specialist inputs and effective outcomes are achieved. Records and reports will need to be completed in accordance with professional and council guidelines.  It will be key for you to liaise and work with contacts from different sectors; including early years settings, health, social care and the voluntary sector ensuring that communication is effective so knowledge and best practice can be shared.