Job Details
Family Support Worker
Family Action
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Expires in 18 days
Overview
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
£24,971 to £27,504
per year
Full time, Permanent
(37 hours per week)
Stroud and The Cotswolds Children and Family Centres (Dursley, Stonehouse, Cirencester)
Key information
You will provide practical and emotional support to children and families through 1 to 1 sessions, home visits, structured sessions, group work, and community-based programs. You’ll promote family resilience by using restorative approaches, building on strengths, and empowering families to achieve positive outcomes.
About the role
Main Responsibilities:
1. Supporting Children and Families
Deliver individual and group support across family centres, homes, and community venues
Carry out child-focused assessments with families and professionals to identify needs, risks and lived experiences.
Develop outcome-focused plans and risk assessments; review and update plans using evidence and professional judgement.
Promote inclusion and equal access to services, especially for those most in need.
Creation and development of resources to support families and children
Help design and deliver universal, open-access services (for example, Stay and Play, Drop-ins, community cafe) at centres and community venues.
Support Universal Provision and wider operational needs implementation, staffing, and outreach events.
2. Multi Agency Working
Participate in multi-agency meetings and collaborative planning, at times being the lead practitioner Make referrals for additional support where necessary and contribute to multi-agency working. Build knowledge of local services and help families access appropriate support.
3. Administration and Reporting
Maintain accurate and timely records in line with Family Action’s standards and safeguarding procedures.
Maintain accurate records and follow safeguarding and confidentiality protocols Support digital/telephone-based service delivery, including troubleshooting. Assist with planning, monitoring, reviewing service development, and producing monthly summaries.
4. Safeguarding and Professional Standards
Prioritise the safety and wellbeing of children, raising safeguarding concerns and making referrals when required.
Adhere to safeguarding policies and procedures.
Participate in supervision, appraisal, ongoing development and reflective practice drive your own development.
Uphold Family Action’s values: people focus, can do attitude, striving for excellence, respect.
Apply Equality, Diversity, Ethical, Health & Safety, and Data Protection policies.
5. Embrace and implement Family Action’s Equality and Diversity Policy in every aspect of your work and positively promote its principles amongst colleagues, service users and other members of the community.
6. Comply with Family Action’s Health and Safety and Data Protection policies and protect your own and others’ health, safety and welfare.
7. Work flexibly as may be required by the needs of the service and carry out any other reasonable duties as required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action.
We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
Requirements
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Interest in supporting children and families to thrive
• Experience relevant for your effectiveness in the role might be from various sectors and disciplines: Youth Work, Teaching, Community Engagement, Early Years The list is not exclusive and if you are passionate about Communities, Children and Families we would still like to hear from you, even if you do not have experience in any of the listed sectors. ·
Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced DBS level