Family Support Worker
Description✓Family Support Worker
✓12-Month Fixed Contract
✓37 hours per Week
✓£15.00 Hourly
✓Slough Based
✓Start Date TBC
✓About the job
✓We are looking for an individual to offer practical help and emotional support to families experiencing short or long-term difficulties
✓The focus of your role is to provide hands-on support to service users, empowering them to address various challenges, reducing problems and risks and, in some cases, helping to make sure that children can remain with their family.
✓Youth Worker Responsibilities:
✓* Problems with drug and alcohol addiction
✓* Children with disability or special educational needs [ SEN ]
✓* Language barriers and other social or cultural issues
✓Your responsibilities will include assessing the needs of clients and creating a plan of support based on a needs assessment
✓You will conduct regular reviews with families and individual clients during home visits to ensure there are no issues at home
✓You will look after the wellbeing of people in their daily lives to reach their potential by providing both physical and emotional support .
✓Overall your aim is to enable families to find solutions in the challenges they face and grow and develop confidence to manage future difficulties.
✓You will be working in an office based in Slough 1-2 days a week [ or work from home ] and the rest of the days you must be in slough for direct work with children, young adults and families.
✓Youth Worker Requirements:
✓* At least 2 years’ experience working 1 to 1 with young children, young adults and parents in
✓* complex families.
✓* Proven track record of working with families with multiple complex needs.
✓* Experience of monitoring, reviewing and evaluating work
✓* Knowledge of child protection policies and procedures and safeguarding and CAF
✓* Educated to A level or NVQ3 in child development, youth support, health or social care, and
✓* / or a relevant or / and professional qualification in these areas.
✓* Be able to travel around Slough
✓* Be able to demonstrate continuous professional development in related disciplines.
✓* Experience of monitoring, reviewing and evaluating work
✓* Knowledge of child protection policies and procedures and safeguarding and CAF
✓* If you hold a valid driving licence and able to travel around slough it’ll be beneficial as this role does require a lot of travelling around the community
✓[ If you don’t, you will still be expected to plan visits and days out as part of the role
]
✓Benefits:
✓* Great exposure to working with a dynamic multi cultured environment
✓* Your bettering young people’s lives around Slough bringing reward and satisfaction
✓* Your presence has an impact, to make a difference to the wellbeing and welfare of people.
✓* Flexible work days where you are able to work on personalised hours depending on the situation in front of you
✓* Each situation is unique as you will not be dealing with the traditional projects when it comes to being a family support worker
✓You are going to deal with unique situations every single day and that’s what makes it a more exciting & rewarding career path.
✓* You are always able to meet new people, listen to their stories and help them
✓Start Date: ASAP
✓How to apply?
✓If you have prior experience in Family Support Work, and would love to join our team then please apply at the link below, attaching a copy of your CV.
✓Due to the high volume of applications, we generate for our vacancies, we are regrettably not able to send a personalised reply to every applicant Show more →
✓12-Month Fixed Contract
✓37 hours per Week
✓£15.00 Hourly
✓Slough Based
✓Start Date TBC
✓About the job
✓We are looking for an individual to offer practical help and emotional support to families experiencing short or long-term difficulties
✓The focus of your role is to provide hands-on support to service users, empowering them to address various challenges, reducing problems and risks and, in some cases, helping to make sure that children can remain with their family.
✓Youth Worker Responsibilities:
✓* Problems with drug and alcohol addiction
✓* Children with disability or special educational needs [ SEN ]
✓* Language barriers and other social or cultural issues
✓Your responsibilities will include assessing the needs of clients and creating a plan of support based on a needs assessment
✓You will conduct regular reviews with families and individual clients during home visits to ensure there are no issues at home
✓You will look after the wellbeing of people in their daily lives to reach their potential by providing both physical and emotional support .
✓Overall your aim is to enable families to find solutions in the challenges they face and grow and develop confidence to manage future difficulties.
✓You will be working in an office based in Slough 1-2 days a week [ or work from home ] and the rest of the days you must be in slough for direct work with children, young adults and families.
✓Youth Worker Requirements:
✓* At least 2 years’ experience working 1 to 1 with young children, young adults and parents in
✓* complex families.
✓* Proven track record of working with families with multiple complex needs.
✓* Experience of monitoring, reviewing and evaluating work
✓* Knowledge of child protection policies and procedures and safeguarding and CAF
✓* Educated to A level or NVQ3 in child development, youth support, health or social care, and
✓* / or a relevant or / and professional qualification in these areas.
✓* Be able to travel around Slough
✓* Be able to demonstrate continuous professional development in related disciplines.
✓* Experience of monitoring, reviewing and evaluating work
✓* Knowledge of child protection policies and procedures and safeguarding and CAF
✓* If you hold a valid driving licence and able to travel around slough it’ll be beneficial as this role does require a lot of travelling around the community
✓[ If you don’t, you will still be expected to plan visits and days out as part of the role
]
✓Benefits:
✓* Great exposure to working with a dynamic multi cultured environment
✓* Your bettering young people’s lives around Slough bringing reward and satisfaction
✓* Your presence has an impact, to make a difference to the wellbeing and welfare of people.
✓* Flexible work days where you are able to work on personalised hours depending on the situation in front of you
✓* Each situation is unique as you will not be dealing with the traditional projects when it comes to being a family support worker
✓You are going to deal with unique situations every single day and that’s what makes it a more exciting & rewarding career path.
✓* You are always able to meet new people, listen to their stories and help them
✓Start Date: ASAP
✓How to apply?
✓If you have prior experience in Family Support Work, and would love to join our team then please apply at the link below, attaching a copy of your CV.
✓Due to the high volume of applications, we generate for our vacancies, we are regrettably not able to send a personalised reply to every applicant Show more →