Vacancy Detail

Family Support Worker

Role:                  Family Support Worker

Based:               Northwest London

Rate:                  £15 – 17 per hour (dependent on experience and qualifications)

Start Date:      Nov/ Dec 2022

Duration:        6 months with the strong possibility of the role becoming permanent

Hours:             37 hours, Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm (flexi working available)

Our client, a national and respected Children’s Charity are looking to recruit 2 Family Support Workers to join their Family Support Service in Northwest London.

The services support vulnerable families with a range of needs including parenting, truancy, substance misuse, mental health, domestic abuse, housing, and income management.

Synopsis of duties:

• Responsible for providing a triage and direct support service for families referred to the Family Well Being service – this will include complex risk and needs assessments, establishing support required, crisis and risk management and signposted families both internal and external services
• Assessing the family as a whole and on a 121 individual basis and working closely with the family and partner agencies to identify risk and needs
• Supporting families with children aged between 0-19 years with a range of needs and giving them opportunity to access a broad reach of holistic & community-based interventions
• Carrying out assessments in the centre and in the family’s home
• Supporting and providing initial advice and guidance to families affected by a range of issues including parental mental health and/ or substance misuse, domestic abuse, housing, finance and income management, asylum seekers and benefits
• Supporting clients to complete housing and welfare benefit applications
• Signposting clients to additional services and agencies including counselling, refuge, group programmes (including the Freedom Programme), housing, solicitors etc
• Facilitating multi-agency working including working closely with the Police, Social Services, GPs, Schools and specialist charities
• Supporting clients to access the community services and facilities

Essential Requirements:

• Level 3 qualification in Working with Children and Young People, Early Years or similar
• Experience supporting vulnerable families and/ or children aged 0-19
• Strong safeguarding and risk assessments skills and experience
• Enhanced DBS issued within the last 12 months and/ or registered on the DBS Update Service

 

For more information, please call the team on 0204 566 5515 and ask to speak to Ria or email us your CV at enquiries@supporting-futures.com

 

Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.

Location: Brent, London | Salary: 15 - 17 per hour | Job type: | Posted: 03/11/2022