Senior Parent Support Advisor

Description:

2 months contract with A Local Authority

Job Summary:

·         The purpose of this post is to provide a holistic assessment of families and offer single or multi-agency coordinated packages of support.

·         The Caseworker will empower families to identify and tackle challenging behaviours, reduce negative family relationships, securing a positive pathway for improvement, with particular emphasis upon increasing educational attendance, attainment and reduce exclusions.

Key Duties/Accountabilities:

·         To carry a complex caseload and key work with families who are referred for support taking on the lead professional role to coordinate a multi-agency whole family approach to address difficulties.

·         To undertake whole family assessments ensuring a high standard of service to families, including securing the services of other agencies.

·         To review action plans regularly and coordinate activity to ensure agreed tasks are identified and goals reached in a timely manner.

·         To ensure that the service provide is delivered at times that suit and meet the needs of the families e.g. early mornings, late evenings.

·         To work in partnership with social workers to effectively step-down cases to the Early Help Service thus reducing social care caseloads.

·         To use a range of assessment tools such as the Family Star and mechanisms to identify the support needs of families including the Enfield Early Help Form (EHF) to identify additional needs and organise and secure support as required. Applying solution focussed techniques to help effect change.

Essential Experience Required:

·         To have significant experience of direct work with children young people and their families in the family home or in the community.

·         Experience of working effectively in co-operation and partnership with a range of communities, partner agencies, private sector bodies, public agencies, voluntary bodies and statutory agencies appropriate to the service area.

·         Working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with parents, professional and voluntary sector to meet the needs of vulnerable children and families who have multiple and complex needs to achieve sustainable and positive change.

·         Experience of working with complex case reviews such as multi-agency professional meetings e.g. Multi Agency Panels, Safeguarding or TAFs (teams around the family).

·         Trained to deliver accredited parenting programmes.

Essential Qualifications Required:

·         NVQ level 3 qualification or equivalent in the field of Child Care, Education, Health.

Additional information to note:

·         Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Check.

The closing date for this position is 28/05/24