Liquid Personnel is currently looking for an experienced Family Support Worker to join our clients Fostering-Connected Carers Team in Durham.
As a successful Family Support Worker, you will provide practical help and intensive interventions to families that contribute to meaningful positive change. This may include supporting families to make and attend appointments, modelling appropriate actions and behaviours and assisting the necessary day to day activities that enable families to progress and maintain positive outcomes.

Why Liquid Personnel?

• We will assist you from the initial phone call on-wards throughout the whole process
• Twice weekly payroll
• Competitive hourly rates
• Access to exclusive health and social care roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive health and social care knowledge
• Interview and coaching support
• Pre and post placement support to ensure you’re happy in the role

 
Your duties as a Family Support Worker in Durham:

• You will build and maintain high quality and appropriate professional relationships with children, young people, and their families to enable positive change to take place
• You will work with parents to enable them to identify, acknowledge and meet their own and their children’s needs, develop life skills, make, and sustain effective change and reduce vulnerability
• You will work within the Single Assessment Framework and ‘Team around the Family’ processes, to contribute to whole family assessments and care planning and liaise with other relevant partners as appropriate
• You will work with the family, the social worker, and other colleagues to develop planned interventions with a clear focus on SMART outcomes; this will set out what changes in behaviour are expected and the appropriate support required
• You will work in partnership with children, young people, and their families in contributing to plans which focus upon strengths and wishes
• You will support social worker in the delivery of child protection and looked after family plans
• You will monitor and review progress against agreed goals and challenge where appropriate
• You will contribute to a planned and timely exit strategy for the family including the appropriate use of Community and Voluntary organisations

Essential requirements of this Family Support Worker role:

• Level 3 qualification in a relevant children’s services field
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Previous experience in a Family Support Worker role
• Recent experience of working and supporting vulnerable children and families in the home and community settings
• Experience of delivering planned interventions using evidence-based practice leading to improved outcomes
• Knowledge of the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social needs of children and families
• The legal right to work in the UK

Why Liquid Personnel?

• We will assist you from the initial phone call on-wards throughout the whole process
• Twice weekly payroll
• Competitive hourly rates
• Access to exclusive health and social care roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive health and social care knowledge
• Interview and coaching support
• Pre and post placement support to ensure you’re happy in the role