Family Support Worker

Description:

Family Support Worker

Romford

The primary purpose of this role is to work with children and families alongside workers within Prevention & Intervention and other agencies to:

Provide 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 & young people.

Ensuring safeguarding at all times.

Key Accountabilities

Provides a service to children and families which will improve outcomes for all children.

Contributes 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.

Provide 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.

Work in partnership with parents/families and other professionals to support and encourage parents to identify ways in which difficulties may be overcome, including signposting parents to a range of services and using safe care and home safety.

Hold a caseload of complex and non-complex cases and attend Court to give information on specific cases as required dependent on competence/experience.

Experience

Experience of working with children and families from a variety of backgrounds and developing and delivering effective provision in either the public or voluntary sector.

Experience of effective partnership or cross sector, multi - agency work.

Experience of working with families on practical parenting tasks and delivering parenting programmes.

Experience of preparing reports and assessments in respect of children this may include presenting to Court