Family Support Worker

Ashberry Recruitment are currently looking for a temporary ongoing Family Support Worker to work with our well-respected client in the Burnley area.

The successful candidate will need to work in line with safeguarding policies and procedures. To ensure a comprehensive assessment is completed to meet the individual needs of the families.

Key Responsibilities

• Be child focused always
• Contribute to the assessment process
• Maintain factual, up to date records so that all assessments and reports can be produced
• Identify any risk and complete risk assessments
• Work as part of a team
• Keywork with individual families
• Attend and contribute to meetings as required
• Attend regular supervision and caseload management
• Work closely with all professionals involved with the families
• Undertake and provide written reports as required
• Prioritise workload in consultation with Senior members of staff
• Maintain and contribute towards the accommodation to the highest standard
• Support families to access and utilise local resources
• Undertake any emergency cover due to illness as and when required by the manager
• Ensure that all training is attended and that you actively participate
• Comply with the |Health and safety at Work Act to maintain a safe environment for service users, employees, and visitors
• Ensure that the organisations policies, and procedures are understood and adhered to

General

• Respect and maintain confidentiality of all matters that you learn relating to services users, staff, and other professionals
• Attend work reliably and punctually
• All staff are required to work in a flexible way, ensuring that all tasks specifically not covered in their job description are undertaken.
• Will adhere to data protection policy and procedures in line with the GDPR

• Experience of working with Children and Young People

Salary/Hours

• £27,269
• 37 Hours Per Week - Will consider 4 days per week (Pro rata to 30 hours) - Monday to Friday