Outreach Family Support Worker

Job purpose:

• Taking whole case responsibility to provide high quality, outreach and home-based Early Help support to children and families using a 'whole family' approach (level 2 and 3).
• Delivering targeted support to children across age ranges (0 -25) and their families in order to prevent the need for statutory services and to ensure families access Universal services.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Offering support on cases that become more complex and reach level 4.
• Providing intensive and targeted support to vulnerable children and young people. This includes bespoke packages and programmes. This also includes supporting adolescents with complex emotional and mental health problems.
• Supporting families/carers in developing practical parenting strategies which enhance positive parent/carer-child relations. This can include facilitated meetings between family members.
• Attending regular supervision sessions with the Consultant Social Worker and provide evidence that work is progressing and that plans are improving outcomes for children and young people.
• Meeting the requirements set out in the Early Help Hub Practice Standards.
• Attending staff meetings, reviews, planning meetings and conferences and contributing towards plans and objectives for children and young people.
• Contributing to evaluation and development of services and new ideas by sharing knowledge about theory, skills and practice with other Children's Services staff, professional groups and interested bodies.

Requirements:

• NVQ Level 3 in childcare and education, NND, Health and Social Care qualification.
• Experience of direct work with children, young people and their families.
• Experience of effective collaborative and multi-agency working to support children and families.
• Ability to communicate effectively, using good written and verbal skills with children, families, other professions and multi-disciplinary organisations in a wide range situation and at different levels.
• Experience of delivering outreach and home based support to children and families to address areas of identified need.
• Ability to maintain accurate, reflective records in accordance with Recording with Care guidelines.
• To work flexibly to support the overall operation of the Service.
• Enhanced DBS dated within the last 12 months. On the update service? You could be fast tracked through our recruitment process today.
• Willingness to complete an enhanced DBS if you do not currently hold one.

Working with Archer Resourcing

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‍Must be eligible to work in the U.K