Family Support Worker

at  South Gloucestershire Council

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

• You must hold NVQ 3 or equivalent in a relevant discipline or be working towards an appropriate qualification related to the provision of services to children and young people.
• You must have considerable relevant experience of the use of evidence-based practice working with vulnerable and disadvantaged children, families or young people,
• You will have demonstrable experience of writing holistic, multi-agency assessments and plans with families
• You must have knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations and codes of practice; processes and procedures.
• You will have well-developed interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships and engage successfully with colleagues, service users and partner organisations.
• We seek applicants who are skilled at engaging families quickly, creating purposeful, professional relationships and agreeing realistic aims and objectives.
• You will be required to travel widely within the authority so you must either have a current driving licence and provide a car or have access to appropriate means of travel.
  Please note that due to the nature of this role it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained for this post.

• 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