Job Description

Family Support Worker

18/hr

Birmingham

Start date: ASAP

Full Time: Mon - Fri - 36/hrs a week

Context

The key priority for Early Help Locality teams is that children, young people and families are safe and feel safe, which means providing timely, accessible early help and support to ensure they are resilient, independent and confident in their future. Early Help services work with children, young people and families in a multi-agency environment providing early help to identify and address problems before they escalate. Each locality will work in a culture in which children and families and communities are worked with respectfully, with recognition of their diverse experiences and backgrounds and in a spirit of partnership that encourages families to develop their own solutions and to receive the help and support they need to address their complex issues.

Purpose of Role

• Using professional knowledge and skills to work in partnership with other practitioner/professionals, children, young people and their families; using the early help assessment to identify and where appropriate be the lead practitioner to coordinate the implementation of a multi-agency plan of intervention.
• To lead and work within the early help locality multi-disciplinary team to provide a timely response to the needs of children, young people and their families; acting in accordance with local policies, procedures and priorities.
• Establish a high standard of practice in the delivery of early help that provides a timely response to children, young people and their families and achieves family outcomes.
• To achieve good outcomes for children and families through coordination and delivery of early help work.
• To deliver evidenced based interventions to positively effect change that safeguards and promotes the welfare of children and young people.

Experience

1. Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions with children, young people and their families

2. Experience of completing an assessment of a child's needs that identifies needs and informs Intervention

3. Experience of working in partnership with key statutory and non-statutory stakeholders.

Skills & Ability

1. Able to identify issues that require escalation in line with Right Help Right Time and work within policies and procedures that promote and safeguard the welfare of families.

2. Ability to effectively plan, chair meetings and manage a diverse workload to ensure that professional standards are consistently met

3. Ability to analyse information to identify strengths and weaknesses and to develop an appropriate support plan