Outreach Family Support Worker

Job Description

Service Care Solutions are seeking an Outreach Family Support Worker to join Liverpool City Councils children and families service on a part time basis.
The successful candidate will utilise a strength-based approach to provide empowering interventions to children and families to help address emerging worries and affect positive change to improve the longer-term outcomes of children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Undertake early help assessments with families


• Create support plans and chair team around the family meetings to review the progress and identify any additional areas of support


• Coordinate support with multi-agency partners to ensure that a whole family approach is taken to address the identified needs of the family


• Direct work with children and young people to explore their views and worries to ensure that the plans/interventions are helping to improve their outcomes

Requirements

• Experience working with children and families


• Knowledge of early help assessments and support planning


• Ability to coordinate support with multi-agency partners


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills


• Strong organisational and time management skills


• Ability to work independently and as part of a team


• Flexibility to work outside of normal office hours when required

Qualifications

• Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People)


• Or equivalent qualification in a relevant field

Part time position - 17.5 hours per week - shift pattern can be discussed at interview stage.

If you are interested please call Ashley Brown on 01772 208964 or email me your CV -

Ashley.Brown@servicecare.org.uk
If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £250.
The benefits of working with SCS;
* A specialist, dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact
* Exceptional referral bonuses - £250 per referral placed in to work!
* An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
* Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
* Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.
* DBS disclosures provided via fast track online services free of charge.