Company:
CV-Library
Location: London
Closing Date: 02/11/2024
Salary: £25 Per Hour
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Family Worker
Camden
£25/hr
Start date: ASAP
Full Time: Mon - Fri - 36/hrs a week
Hatched Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for Family Worker in the Camden area. 3 - 6 months contract with the local authorities.
To deliver a service to vulnerable families, children and young people in Camden, including;
* delivery of assessment, planning and intervention packages to vulnerable families, children and young people;
* provide young people leaving care with support and guidance and promote independence;
* facilitate, supervise, and record contact between children and their families
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To carefully and thoroughly assess children and families' needs underpinned by the common assessment framework, prescribed screening tools and models of engagement.
To create a whole family action plan and evaluate progress against shared outcomes.
To work in partnership with universal services to support early identification of need and/or risk, ensuring needs are identified in a timely way.
To deliver responsive early intervention packages, including evidence-based programmes and/or refer to appropriate services (universal, targeted and specialist) to meet need, working in partnership with families.WORK CONTEXT
* Family Workers work in multi-agency, multi-disciplinary teams based in community venues and work with families in their own homes.
* Family Workers are required to demonstrate emotional intelligence and resilience to work confidently with families who are often vulnerable, have complex needs, including for example children on the edge of care, engaged in criminal or antisocial behaviour, gang activity or substance misuse or are experiencing domestic violence and neglect.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS
* Satisfactory Enhanced DBS check.
* Numeracy and literacy to GCSE level of equivalent
* Further education to the level of e.g. NVQ, B-TEC or equivalent in a relevant field
* Experience of working with children, young people and families in diverse, inner-city communities
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