Family Support Worker

Family Support Worker
Islington
£26/hr
Start date: ASAP
Full time position: 35/hrs a week
AKTON Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for a Family Support Worker in the Islington. 3 -6 months contract.
Key responsibilities
Bright Futures offers help for families with children over five years old, within three locality areas. This is an integrated offer within the locality, to enable children and families to reach their potential and to support local communities in order to build resilience and improve long term outcomes for all families in Islington.
Each locality has a universal offer of help, providing a rapid response to families and wrapping around universal services to manage emerging needs as early as possible, as well as offering case holding interventions which are flexible to support families with multiple complex needs.
The Family Support Practitioner provides timely and flexible early help and Family Support to children, young people and parents/carers in families alongside outreach support practitioners in the Bright Futures teams. They work in partnership with families and engage informal and formal support networks in their communities to ensure lasting positive outcomes. They encourage resilience to enable families to build strong relationships and strategies to deal confidently with the ups and downs of parenting and family life.
1. Provide a flexible, graduated approach which responds to the identified needs of families. This will range from offering hands on practical help to intensive support to families in their homes at a variety of times including early morning, evenings or at weekends.
2. Undertake the role of Lead Professional, co-ordinating the professional network through a Team around the Family and one whole family plan which is reviewed and adjusted regularly in order to meet the family's continuing needs.
3. Complete collaborative early help assessments and SMART family friendly action plans to address family needs and improve family functioning.
4. Establish effective professional relationships with key partners such as health, employment services, targeted and specialist services, schools, housing and early years' settings.
5. Work in partnership with parents/carers to increase parental confidence and capacity, supporting healthy attachment and encouraging containing and nurturing relationships that promote child development.
Must have:
Minimum NVQ level 3 or equivalent level, in early years, Family Support, education, health, social care, play/youth work or similar, with post qualifying experience as a practitioner in a
related fieldwork setting.
Enhanced DBS required