Family Support Worker

Job purpose:

• Providing a broad range of services with the aim of supporting families by improving family relationships, improving parenting and breaking negative cycles.
• Promoting positive and healthy outcomes for children and young people.
• Ensuring safeguarding at all times.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Providing a service to children and families which will improve outcomes for all children.
• Contributing to planning, delivering and evaluating work with children and parents, both in groups and individually, providing a stimulating and caring environment which enhances and promotes the child’s all round developmental needs.
• Providing practical parenting support to families through home visiting and outreach work and undertake direct work with children and families around issues identified by agencies in response to a variety of situations that may arise, using a recognised parenting programme.
• Setting individual targets and programmes of intervention in relation to assessments, offering support and advice to meet these needs either within home visits or group work.
• Working in partnership with parents/families and other professionals to support and encourage parents to identify ways in which difficulties may be overcome.
• Delivering agreed programmes of parenting support.
• Taking personal responsibility for maintaining confidentiality in line with Havering’s policies and procedures.
• Holding a caseload of complex and non-complex cases and attend Court to give information on specific cases as required dependent on competence/experience.

Requirements:

• A relevant practice qualification in childcare, education, health or social care.
• 2 years minimum experience working with young children and families.  
• Experience of preparing reports and assessments in respect of children this may include presenting to Court
• Experience of working with families on practical parenting tasks and delivering parenting programmes.  
• A qualification in First Aid or the willingness to train and acquire the qualification.
• An ability to travel between Local Authority sites within the London Borough of Havering.
• Enhanced DBS dated within the last 12 months. On the update service? You could be fast tracked through our recruitment process today.

Working with Archer Resourcing

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Due the high demand of CV's received we are unable to respond to all applications. However, we may hold your CV on file and contact you for future suitable roles.

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Must be eligible to work in the U.K