Family Support Workers (Part-time)
- Recruiter
- Barnardo's
- Location
- Gloucester, Gloucestershire
- Salary
- £8.95 - £12.17 per hour
- Posted
- 20 Jun 2017
- Closes
- 10 Jul 2017
- Sectors
- Health, Nursing & Social Care, Nursing
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part Time
Family Support Workers (Part-time)
£8.95 - £12.17 per hour
Part-time, permanent
Gloucester
Various hours between 16-35 hours per week
Barnardo's has been successfully running children's services in Gloucester since 2010. Building on this success, Barnardo's have recently been commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council to deliver a new Targeted Family Support Service for local families with children aged 0-11 yrs. This new service forms an integral part of Gloucestershire County Council's Early Help offer and runs from six designated Children and Family Centres across the City - Kingsholm, Finlay, Linden, Matson, Bartongate, Tuffley.
We are looking to recruit both full and part time Family Support Workers to join our outreach team. These vacancies are available as permanent or fixed term contracts and are all year round.
The main duties of the role would include:
- Work one to one with vulnerable families to reduce inequalities between those in greatest need and their peers.
- Facilitating the delivery of targeted support groups and parenting programmes.
- Competently and accurately recording observations on case management systems with an awareness that information you supply may be used in legal proceedings.
In addition, candidates must be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of:
- Working with parents with specific vulnerabilities that impact on their child/ren; including (but not limited to); low income, domestic abuse, substance misuse, anti-social and/or criminal behaviour and transient families.
- Assessing complex safeguarding and welfare issues for children and vulnerable adults.
- Child development across the ages, with a particular emphasis on children with additional needs, disabilities, specific educational needs, adult and child mental health and those with protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
- Evidence based practice and the ability to apply this to inform practice.
For further information and to apply, please click on the apply button to be redirected to our website.
Closing date: 9 July 2017.
Interviews: 17 & 18 July 2017.
At Barnardo's, we believe in children. Our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need.
Barnardo's Registered Charity Nos 216250 and SC037605.
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