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Community Foster Care

Family Support Worker

Posted on Nov. 27, 2024

Gloucester, United Kingdom
0 - 0 USD (yearly)

Part Time

Role Summary

To work with children, young people and families to overcome challenges and adversity to reach their potential. As a Support Worker, you will develop and call on a range of creative techniques and interventions that enable Children and Young People to thrive. From this secure confident position, we will enable them to take the next positive step. You will ensure we can evidence this progress.

As a Family Support Worker, you will at all times:

Work consistently with Community Foster Care’s values and contribute to achieving its mission.
Seek to develop and enhance good working practice (to include suitable levels of work performance) for yourself and your colleagues.
Promote Community Foster Care’s reputation and protect its ability to achieve its mission.

This role is an essential car user position. You will be based in our central Gloucester office, with the expectation of travel to surrounding counties.

The role of a Family Support Worker will mean that you will need to work some evenings and weekends. You may be required to work outside of office hours to:

Attend any appropriate meetings or events;
To meet the demands of your role;
To offer support to your team as required.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To facilitate activities for young people during school holidays.
Where required/directed, provide time limited support to the child, young person or their family, in order to ensure their safety and wellbeing is promoted and assists in:
preventing family breakdown;
supporting a family in order that the child can remain in a foster placement;
providing activity based interventions as required.
Work directly with a child or young person to provide practical assistance in line with their assessment of need.
Provide emergency support to foster carers as and when required.
Provide group based interventions and activities for children, young people, carers or families.
Promote and encourage the participation of young people in the organisation.
Promote and encourage young people to share their views and provide feedback.
Provide emotional support and behavioural strategies to foster carers/parents as well as to children and young people themselves.
Mentor children and young people at risk of foster placement breakdown;
Mentor children and young people at risk of admission into care;
Attend a variety of meetings to support a child or young person;
To review progress and monitor at all times, regularly reporting back to the line Manager;
To ensure a flexible service around school hours and availability of the child, young person or family;
To advise families of independent services available to them outside of Community Foster Care.
To support with unannounced visits to foster carers.
To support with the core functions of the charity, such as screening and responding to referrals and enabling the effective making of placements.
To support with the core functions of the charity, such as screening and responding to referrals and enabling the effective making of placements.

Statutory Recording

Carry out an assessment of need for each child or young person;
To ensure a risk assessment of the child, family, or group activity is undertaken and incorporated into reporting;
Provide statutory reporting as required;

Case Planning

Set up work action plans in partnership with professionals as required;
Review new and effective ways to ensure the child or young person is engaged in the process;
To undertake case recording of all aspects of work;
Contribute to the training needs of Foster Carers where required or requested;
To attend and contribute to other meetings as required, i.e. strategy meetings, case reviews, working parties and training courses.

To apply, please visit our website: https://www.communityfostercare.co.uk/job-vacancies/job-family-support-worker, or apply through Indeed and you will be sent an application form to complete.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £25,433.01-£29,110.44 per year

Expected hours: 22.5 per week

Benefits: