Join a dedicated team making a real difference to vulnerable families and children in your local community.
Contract to start ASAP
Duration: 20 weeks with a possible extension.
Responsibilities:
- Effectively manage and progress a caseload to achieve positive outcomes based on a solution focussed, strengths based approach
- Assess and identify levels of risk, vulnerability and safeguarding via an Early Help Assessment, ensuring that the child's and individuals or families voice is captured throughout the whole assessment and intervention process
- Deliver targeted activity working either on a 1-1 basis or in groups using a holistic approach to address any identified needs for the family in agreement with the family
- Co-produce with the family protective, supportive and needs led plans and review in line with practice standards
- Maintain accurate records of all assessments, plans, actions and reviews
- Record all agreed exit strategies and ensure that the strategies are enacted in a timely manner
- Participate in reviews, meetings and other forums as required in line with the one worker one family approach to engage, empower and enable positive steps towards change
- Support the Family Hub Manager in the day to day coordination of the Family Hub, ensuring agreed protocols for service delivery and the sharing of resources are implemented
- The postholder will adopt a solution focused, problem solving approach to ensure any issues are addressed promptly and effectively
- Develop own knowledge of internal and external support services who work with families
- Meet and greet families into the Family Hub and provide advice, support and signposting to the relevant support services to meet their needs
- Make necessary referrals to relevant services as and when needed
- Work closely with Family Hub front of house staff ensure that the Family Hubs provide a welcoming environment for families
- Utilising display boards to advertise the range of services available from Family Hubs and ensuring the Early Help Partnership online directory is up to date with all provision delivered via Family Hubs
- Responsibility for Facebook pages and making this engaging, up to date and relevant to families
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Pay: £17.37 per hour
Work Location: In person
