Main characteristics
- Location
- West Midlands (County)
- Company
- 4Recruitment Services
- Salary
- £19.49/hour
- Employment type
- Temporary
- Category
- Social Care / Nursing
Job summary
Family Support WorkerBirmingham
Umbrella Pay- £19.49 per hour
29/10/2023 2 months initially
Monday to Friday, 9am 5pm, 36.5 hrs/week
Our client are seeking a Family Support Worker to join a Family Support and Safeguarding team based in Birmingham.
* Working alongside social workers, managing and prioritising a complex caseload
* Direct working with families offering support and guidance
* Achieve good outcomes for children and families through coordination and delivery of
early help work across Family Support/Think Family
* Contact supervision with children and parents/ carers
* Support on healthy relationships, parenting, guidance and boundaries
* Complete assessments of childrens needs
* Deliver evidence based interventions to positively effect change that safeguards and
promotes the welfare of children and young people
* Identify issues that require escalation
* To act as a champion in a specific practice area (e.g. domestic violence, substance misuse,
disability, parenting etc.) on behalf of the team/service delivering workshops and providing
advice and support where relevant
* Working in partnership with key statutory and non-statutory stakeholders
* Be responsible for a high standard of case recording that is up to date; including use of a common database
* Organise and chair case planning and review meetings, and attend conference meetings
Requirements
* Recent experience in Family Support/ working with vulnerable children and families
* Experience of delivering evidence based interventions
* Experience of completing children assessment
* Able to identify issues that require escalation and be able to escalate these
* Willingness to undertake relevant training in order to comply with the requirements of the post
* Enhanced Child and Adult DBS Certificate that is registered onto the update service
Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services in an equal opportunities employer.
Please email all CVs to Sammy Davis or call (phone number removed) mobile (phone number removed)