- Advertised from 22nd July 2022
- 37 Hour contract, working flexibility of 8am-10pm, 5 days over 7
- Holiday entitlement: starting at 28 days per annum and 9 public holidays
Role
This role will offer a tiered approach to providing support and intervention for children aged 5 to 12, experiencing mental and emotional distress to promote positive wellbeing. This will be in collaboration with Longhaugh Support Group (LSG). This role will work closely with LSG, th child’s mainstream school, children and families social work, specialist supports and universal services whilst taking a whole family approach though outreach community work with families.
The Family Support Worker role will have expertise in social, communication and neurodiverse needs and all work will be underpinned by includem’s model of practice and the . The role will require you to work flexibly between 8am-10pm, 5 days over 7 to provide support to children, parents & carers at times supportive of family needs.
This role will provide 4 key elements of support:
- 1:1 Child Wellbeing Support
- 1:1 Parent/Carer and Whole Family Support
- Parenting Groupwork including delivery of the 10 week Solihull for parents
- Collaboration with LSG, mainstream school, Children and Families Social Work Team and other community based specialist and universal services
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- You will travel to meet children and families within their communities in safe spaces such as home, LSG, mainstream school, community space, at times flexible to their needs
- You will listen to the needs of the children and families we work with, to agree a location to meet and listen as that need evolves over time. We welcome the opportunity to collocate with partners in Dundee also.
- You will deliver groupwork from partner locations, face to face or virtually as needed
The Family Support Worker will be responsible for:
- Building quality relationships which support and empower children, young people and families to develop and have ownership of interventions which improve their emotional health and wellbeing
- Enhance emotional wellbeing, improve home-school relationships, improve attendance and improve behaviour
- Providing 1:1 and whole family support based around the strengths and needs of each young person and family
- Using a strengths-based approach to empower individuals facing adversity to find solutions and make positive changes, ensuring resources are in place to sustain these changes
- Facilitating Solihull groupwork sessions for parents and carers
- Ensuring practice within 1:1 and groupwork is aligned with strengths principles is family centred and rights based.
- Providing a whole family approach to consolidate change and provide the support the whole family needs for its members wellbeing
- Understanding the different coping mechanisms that young people and their families use to deal with stress and high emotions, and to respond appropriately
- Working collaboratively with children, young people and families, LSG, mainstream school, children and families social work and other key stakeholders and external partners towards the achievement of shared goals and objectives
- Attend multi-agency meetings to support families
- Utilising a range of approaches to improve relationships with family and peers including our A Better Life toolkit, Restorative Practice and the Solihull Approach
- You will work with the child and family to co-produce a Personal Support Plan that is flexible and adaptive to meet their changing needs and the needs of the whole family. Plans will be aligned to their strengths, goals, hopes, aims, using tools such as our Wellbeing Web to measure SHANARRI indicators and progress.
- You will work collaboratively with schools and contribute to the young person’s ABLe plan
- Assessing and responding appropriately to situations where children, young people and families may be at risk of harm
- Responding to children, young people and families. and working in collaboration with others to ensure families have the required range of support they need through universal and statutory agencies
- Identifying universal/specialist supports and support children, young people and families to access and engage, providing practical support e.g. getting to appointments/groups and barrier reduction
- Taking direction from your team manager and participate in planning to ensure time is used effectively to meet the needs of children, young people and families.
- Develop and maintain connections with local communities and neighbourhoods to support families to sustain positive change
- Be accountable for the quality of support and be able to evidence this work effectively
- Support participation of children, young people and families in quality assurance practices, service improvement and Dundee identification of gaps and further commissioning design
- Record accurately and in line with the needs of the service, using includem's online information system (MAPS)
- Contribute to reporting for the service
Additional Information
You will need a full driving license and access to your own car for work purposes. The post holder will have the ability to work independently and as part of a multi-agency scaffolding of support for children and families.
Qualifications
You will be educated to SCQF Level 8 or have relevant skills and experience in working with young people or young adults with mental health needs.
The post holder will need to be registered with the SSSC as a worker in the care at home category and qualifications to support this. Experience of delivering groupwork would be preferable.
Service: Includem holistic family support in partnership with Longhaugh Support group based within Dundee
Reports to:Team manager
Financial Accountability:Low
Application notes
Closing date: 7th August 2022 at Midnight.
Completed Application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Questionnaire to be emailed to hrassist@includem.co.uk
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What we offer
We offer a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in an enriching environment with the following benefits:
- 6% employer pension contribution
- flexible working (including flexi-time)
- access to learning and development opportunities
- one special leave day to celebrate your birthday
- annual staff and volunteer recognition awards
- quarterly staff wellbeing activities
- annual all staff outing/activity
- HSF Health plan for employees (and their spouse/partner and children) including dental and optical claim back, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, discounts for gym, cinema and shopping
- access to ScotWest Credit Union offering loans, mortgages and savings accounts
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Bridges Project is a leading youth work charity that helps young people aged 12-25 in East Lothian and Midlothian overcome challenges and adapt to adulthood. For nearly 40 years, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education.
We have a vacancy for an Educational Support Worker to deliver an effective casework and group work service to young people experiencing a range of challenges such as non-attendance at school, low attainment, poor mental health and family poverty.
The successful candidate will:
- Support young people to gain employability skills, life skills and accreditation; helping them in to work, apprenticeships, further education or vocational training
- Provide vocational/industry specific accreditation and training to groups of young people alongside individual support to address particular barriers
- Take the lead on the service and to provide an effective interface between young people, partners and stakeholders involved in the service.
This is an exciting position in which the successful candidate will take pride in developing a programme of delivery which will provide young people with clear pathways to positive destinations.
It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.
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You will ideally have experience of delivering informal, formal and at times complex interventions to children, young people and adults and have a clear understanding of the benefits of individual and group support.
You will be confident in taking the initiative, have problem solving skills and bring an enthusiasm to the role. Furthermore you will have the ability to think ahead, be highly organised and be able to input data into our systems and produce any necessary reports.
Our befriending groups run from 6pm – 8pm in the evenings.
Applications from people with care-experience are welcomed.
What we offer
We offer a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in an enriching environment with the following benefits:
- 6% employer pension contribution
- flexible working (including flexi-time)
- access to learning and development opportunities
- one special leave day to celebrate your birthday
- annual staff and volunteer recognition awards
- quarterly staff wellbeing activities
- annual all staff outing/activity
- HSF Health plan for employees (and their spouse/partner and children) including dental and optical claim back, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, discounts for gym, cinema and shopping
- access to ScotWest Credit Union offering loans, mortgages and savings accounts
Essential requirements:
- Enhanced PVG required for this post
- Full Driving License with access to a car for business use/purposes
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- Part time
- £28,500 pro-rata
- Home-based although most of your time will be planning and facilitating participation work in Aberdeen and work from our participation space/office in Glasgow as and when required (Remote)
- Closing 14th April 2024
Anyone working in Throughcare and Aftercare will already know who we are and what we do. That we have a strong reputation for living our values and are well respected for our approach to co-design with care experienced young people transitioning into adulthood, care leavers, and the workforce that supports them.
For anyone else reading this advert, you should know that we are Scotland’s only national charity and membership organisation for all those working with young people leaving care. We have a unique blend of statutory, third sector and private sector members who have the responsibility and accountability to improve the life chances of Scotland's care-experienced young people, and we support them through the following 5 pillars of our strategic plan:
- Listening to Young People
- Connecting Members
- Influencing Policy
- A system that privileges relationships
- All underpinned by: Good Governance.
At the centre of all our work is the voice of young people/adults leaving care and making the change to the system, policy and practice that will allow them to live happy successful lives on their own terms.
As we orientate to delivering on the Promise in 2024 and beyond, and to ensure the rights and voices of care experienced people and the workforce around them are heard, we are building capacity into the operational management of our team to accelerate our strategic priorities.
So if Staf sounds like the type of organisation you would like to contribute to; if you are open to working hard to support the internal culture and approach to being part of a small team that has each other’s back to deliver on our strategic priorities as you do the work itself; and if you have the required skills and experience to ‘hit the ground running’ then we would love to hear from you.
In return we can offer you the salary, annual leave and pension contribution outlined in the job description; flexibility over work base; an internal organisational culture committed to space for reflective supervision and team committed to working in a trauma-informed way and living our Values, We Listen. We Care. We Love.
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