Family Support Worker Contract

Family Support Worker
Dudley
Contract
£14.77 Umbrella P/H

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a FSW to work in Dudley within the Children’s Service.

The primary purpose of the role is to work directly with targeted children, young people,
families, parents and carers within the community by:

• Carrying out high quality Early Help assessments, develop and implement high quality Early Help Family Support plans.
• Working in partnership with families to ensure that they are provided with the right support atthe right time to promote the welfare of children and young people living within the family.
• Reducing the risk of abuse and neglect and the need for statutory social care intervention.
• Proactively engage and support the most vulnerable and challenging children, young people and their families to strengthen the family and improve their outcomes, develop their resilience and reduce dependency upon specialist services.
• Delivering a ‘Think Family’ approach ensuring that all services working with the family are coordinated and work effectively together whilst maintaining a focus upon the safety and wellbeing of the children and young people.
• Implementing, monitoring and reviewing family support intervention plans, including the delivery of evidence based parenting programmes, activities and group work sessions to strengthen family resilience.
• Enabling the development of positive strategies to enable families to gain and maintain independence and control over all aspects of their lives and contribute positively within the community.

For more information please call Sam on 01616670021 or email