Slough Children First Job Opportunity

Do you have experience of intensive one to one work and group work with parents, children, and young people from complex families? If so, then now is an exciting time to join Slough Children First as we look to recruit Family Support Workers to our Targeted Early Help service.

As a Family Support Worker, you’ll act as the dedicated Lead Professional at all stages of support, ensuring parents and children engage and comply with the family’s action plan, as well as conducting comprehensive whole family assessments and producing appropriate written reports detailing family assessments.

You’ll benefit from working in a team that provides supervision, support, and development opportunities and you will be a part of our journey to improve the lives of children and families in Slough.

Please note, this vacancy may be closed earlier than the advertised closing date subject to the volume of applications received.

Main Accountabilities

• To conduct comprehensive whole family assessments as required and produce appropriate written reports detailing family assessment and ensuring that these are recorded on the ICS system.
• Deliver brief and short term interventions when this is sufficient to meet family needs, and long term interventions using the Dundee Model of family support.
• To act as dedicated Lead Professional at all stages of support from pre-assessment through to exit strategy, using support and challenge measures to ensure that parents and children engage and comply with the family’s action plan.
• Coordinate support from external agencies and lead the Team Around the Family (TAF) approach.
• To work with families at various times including early morning, evening and weekends, delivering services where they are required such as the family home and community settings.
• To maintain effective records of family interventions and use the outcomes-based Family Star assessment tool to evidence the achievement of outcomes and enable evaluation recording these on the ICS system.
• To promote and contribute to early intervention processes using step up and step down approaches, supporting Social Care where appropriate and understanding when statutory interventions are required.
• To ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework, and take into account issues such as race, gender, sexuality, disability etc., and deliver appropriate services to the diverse communities of Slough.
• The post holder will be expected to take on additional duties and changes to the job description as required by your line manager commensurate with the post.