Job: Family Support Worker
We are looking for a Family Support Worker based in Gloucester.
Job Location: Gloucester (with regular travel to surrounding counties)
Pay scale: £25,433.01 - £29,110.44 FTE
Hours: Part Time - 22.5 hours per week
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Interview date: 13th January 2024
We ask that anyone who wants to apply for this role please contact Georges@communityfostercare.co.uk or call 01452 849301.
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.
What we believe
Our Vision
A world where all children and young people grow up in families rich in the essential ingredients required for them to realise their ambitions and dreams.
Our Mission
To create environments, enrich families and harness communities that enable Children and Young People to overcome adversity and abuse, by creating an enduring sense of belonging. By doing this and by working together, we will have the courage to overcome barriers, through tenacity and creativity we will release their potential.
Key Requirements Of Which You Should Be Aware
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.
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.
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.
What We Require From All Our Employees
A commitment and alignment with Community Foster Care’s Values;
A tenacity and commitment to resolve and develop our ability to enable children to thrive;
A willingness to embrace challenge and actively seek constructive feedback;
A willingness and ability to be highly functioning team player;
A willingness to work in a flexible way, to cover additional tasks where required, not specifically covered in the job description;
A commitment to anti oppressive practice, underpinned by an understanding and promotion of equality and diversity;
Positively promote and publicise the work of the Community Foster Care;
Always represent Community Foster Care in a professional manner;
Act as communication champion to ensure that all staff are well informed about developments and have a clear understanding of issues;
Undertake training and development deemed necessary for the pursuance and development of the post;
Comply with Equal Opportunities, GDPR and employment practices.
It is the nature of work of Community Foster Care, that tasks and responsibilities are unpredictable and varied. All staff are therefore expected to work in a flexible way when the occasion arises where tasks are not specifically covered in the Job Description and have to be undertaken.
Community Foster Care is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosures Barring Service clearance at enhanced level.
CVs will not be accepted in any circumstances; all applicants must complete an application form and send it to Georges@communityfostercare.co.uk