Family Support Worker

at  South Gloucestershire Council

How you’ll make a difference:
Working alongside children and families, you will offer crucial support, to enable positive steps and progress and to identify the successful achievements and milestones that children and families are making themselves, ultimately operating independently without the need for professional support.

What you will be doing:

• It will be your responsibility to carry out whole family assessments, providing advice and guidance to families to establish plans where appropriate, ensuring that services are effective and supportive for families with children aged 0-5.
• Reviewing and monitoring early help plans, you will respond to any changing of needs and renegotiate where appropriate in accordance with safeguarding procedures.
• You will manage your own caseload of work to ensure specialist inputs and effective outcomes are achieved and that records and reports are completed in accordance with professional and council guidelines.
• Working with stakeholders from different sectors, you will share knowledge and best practice though effective communication.

What we need from you:

• It essential that you are qualified to a level NVQ 3 or equivalent in a relevant discipline or working towards an appropriate qualification related to the provision of services to children and young people.
• You must have experience of the use of evidence-based practice working with vulnerable and disadvantaged children, families or young people.
• We require you to have previous experience of writing holistic, multi-agency assessments and plans with families.
• Given the nature of this role, you will have well-developed interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships and engage successfully with colleagues, service users and partner organisations.
• You will be skilled at engaging families quickly and ensure that relevant and effective support is given to families, so that they can use this learning once the Families Plus involvement ends.

What you need to know

• This role is permanent working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
• You will be required to travel widely within the authority so you must either have a current valid 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.

WE’RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE, BE PART OF IT!

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• It will be your responsibility to carry out whole family assessments, providing advice and guidance to families to establish plans where appropriate, ensuring that services are effective and supportive for families with children aged 0-5.
• Reviewing and monitoring early help plans, you will respond to any changing of needs and renegotiate where appropriate in accordance with safeguarding procedures.
• You will manage your own caseload of work to ensure specialist inputs and effective outcomes are achieved and that records and reports are completed in accordance with professional and council guidelines.
• Working with stakeholders from different sectors, you will share knowledge and best practice though effective communication