Family Support Worker

Seven Social Care are currently recruiting for a Family Support Worker to start a new role in Durham.

Pay: £17.11 per hour
Location: Durham, County Durham
Contract: Locum
Hours:37 hours per week

Some families in County Durham experience a range of factors which place outcomes for their children at risk, these include poverty, parental substance misuse, domestic abuse, crime and/or anti-social behaviour, poor school attendance and worklessness. The aim of the Family Support Worker is to provide practical help at the earliest opportunity to enable these families to make significant and sustainable changes that will impact positively upon themselves and their children.

Responsibilities:

• Provide practical help and intensive interventions to families that contribute to meaningful positive change. This may include supporting families to make and attend appointments, modelling appropriate actions and behaviours and assisting the necessary day to day activities that enable families to progress and maintain positive outcomes.
• To build and maintain high quality and appropriate professional relationships with children, young people, and their families to enable positive change to take place.
• To work with parents to enable them to identify, acknowledge and meet their own and their children’s needs, develop life skills, make, and sustain effective change and reduce vulnerability.

Applicant Requirements:

• Experience: Recent experience of working and supporting vulnerable children and families in the home and community settings.
• Qualifications: Level 3 qualification in a relevant children’s services field.
• Compliance: Enhanced Adults and Childrens DBS, Right to Work in the
• UKHours: 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday

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