Family Support Worker X3

Why work for Rotherham Children and Young People’s Services?

You will be joining an authority Ofsted rate as Good.

You will receive strong management support and oversight, and approachable and supportive senior managers.

You will receive regular reflective supervision.

We provide excellent professional learning and development opportunities underpinned by the Rotherham Family Approach which incorporates ‘Signs of Safety’, ‘Restorative Approaches’, and ‘Social Pedagogy’ as our methodological approach and framework to supporting children and families.

You will experience a positive learning environment to enhance your career and access to a bespoke Learning Academy which supports practitioners across CYPS.

 You will have the opportunity to make a real difference to the children and families in the Borough.

We want excellent practitioners to help transform Rotherham by generating a movement where excellent practice is the norm, resulting in consistently better outcomes for all our children. These are in accordance with our ambition to become a leading children’s services authority.

About the opportunities:

1 x Full Time (37 hours) Family Support Worker, Permanent: Winterhill Locality

2 x Full Time (37 hours) Family Support Worker, Permanent: Maltby Locality

The Early Help and Family Engagement Service provide practical help and advice to support families and their children to achieve their full potential.  The Service builds on the family's strengths and offers support as problems begin to emerge to prevent issues from getting worse, leading to higher level statutory services becoming involved.  The Service supports families with children aged 0-19 years or 25 with a disability and works with the whole family in partnership, to identify the best possible solutions to issues that they might be experiencing.  The Service offers a variety of support to meet the needs of children and families.  This is delivered by a Lead Professional and the Early Help Assessment is the tool that underpins this work.

The Early Help Strategy is clear that the commitment is for families requiring support to have one worker and one plan and that this is a partnership endeavour from which families will benefit.  The posts will operate from locality based Early Help & Family Engagement Teams and successful candidates will have the skills and experience to work with children and their families with additional needs that may be either within a statutory arena (i.e. co-worked with Children’s Social Care) or, are at risk of escalation into high level statutory services. Successful candidates will have experience in managing a caseload of children and families and be able to effect positive change with the family to reduce risk and need.

The successful candidates will be proficient in the following key duties and areas of responsibility:

Management of a caseload of children and families; carry out detailed and comprehensive Early Help Assessments and multi-agency plans created with the child and family that lead to positive, long terms sustainable change.

To employ evidence-based approaches such as Restorative Practice and Signs of Safety (Rotherham Family Approach) and co-facilitation of evidence based parenting programmes to support children and families in a range of environments.

Coordinate and chair Team Around the Family Meetings and attend other relevant forums that support children and families. This includes being a proactive, ‘can-do’ professional that holds the child and family needs at the heart of practice.

To create and maintain strong multi agency partnerships that promotes effective joint working and appropriate step up and step-down arrangements for families.

Contribute to data collection to highlight the impact of Early Help intervention for children and families.

If you are interested in either of these posts and would like an informal discussion or further information, please contact; Julie Fearnley (07557312998) julie.fearnley@rotherham.gov.uk or Jo Conway (07584217094) joanne.conway@rotherham.gov.uk

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