Family Worker Contract

Family Worker – Children Cared For Teams
South Shields
Contract
£12.00 Paye

We are currently looking for a Family Worker to work in South Shields. The postholder will be responsible for the Family Worker – Children Cared For Teams.

The team has a wide remit across children cared for.

As a family worker you will provide direct support and interventions to children / young people and families under direction and support of the practice manager. You will have access to practice guidance and support from social workers, assistant team managers and practice managers. Family workers will be an integral member of the Team around the Child/Family and will work alongside other professionals to contribute to whole family assessments and will be required to deliver planned interventions to parents and carers, utilising a range of evidence based early intervention methods and approaches within a multi-agency context. The role will support the service achieve its goals of ensuring that children cared for maintain and sustain links with their own families and communities where ever this is in the child’s best interests.

Overall Objectives of the Post:

To help ensure the team / service is able to deliver flexible, responsive services to meet the needs of children / young people and their families both in and outside ‘office hours’.

To help ensure the service is able to identify and manage need and risk safely whilst supporting children.

To help ensure the service works in partnership with children, young people and families as part of the team around the child / family in undertaking assessments and delivering support, ensuring their voices are heard and valued.

To help ensure the team / service works in partnership with colleagues from other agencies to develop and delivered coordinated packages of support that provide a positive journey through intervention and support for the child / young person and family.

For more information please call Sam on 01616670021 or email