Salary £21,268 to £23,398 per annum (pro rata for part time hours)
Permanent x 5, Full time and Part time hours available.
Based in Various Locations

Interview date: 29th June 2017

This position is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (formerly Criminal Records Bureau check)

Through the Integrated Prevention and Earliest Help System, we will work with children, families, and young people to help ensure that every child, family and young person is supported to achieve his or her potential. The foundations for future mental health, emotional control, intelligence and parenting ability are all set in place in the early years and the home surroundings, family life and parenting are all important factors in determining positive outcomes for children in the future.

The Family Support Worker is a lead professional role that is committed to providing and coordinating support to a family on a regular basis. Their role is to help the family identify, manage problems and co-ordinate the delivery of services. Family Support Workers use Early Help Plans to assess each member of the family, create a whole family delivery plan and review the needs of the family. Family Support Workers use Signs of Safety in their work with families and this forms the basis of the delivery plan.

The role may also deliver direct support to families in their homes and through group work to develop parenting and life skills, self-confidence, motivation and goal setting and may undertake direct one to one support or have a specialist skill that requires them to be part of a Team around the Family or lead professional.

The main purpose is to provide Supported Help to families experiencing difficulties through regular intervention using a Whole Family approach. You will be utilising partner agencies to effect and sustain positive change for the family, individual members and the community around them by:

• Developing and maintaining effective partnership working with parents and families
• Provide or co-ordinate regular support
• Facilitating and delivering interventions which improve parental capacity and family relationships