Family Support Worker

5 months ago

Bootle, United Kingdom Liverpool City Combined Authority Full time

£16.14- per hour- Trinity Road, Bootle, L20 3NJSocial Work,

Social Work,

Temporary

**Role**:
Job Description and Person Specification

Department:
Young People and Families
Division:
Early Intervention & Prevention
Section:
Aiming High

**Location**:
Good Shepherd
Post:
EIP Family Support Worker
Grade:
G
Responsible To:
EIP Family Support Manager
Job Purpose:
Deliver family support assessment and interventions for children and young people with disabilities.
Main Duties:
1. To work sensitively with children with moderate to severe learning disabilities, and complex health needs, to develop their social and communication skills, and promote friendships, independence, and self-esteem.
2. To conduct assessments and support the planning of appropriate interventions and outcomes.
3. To consult meaningfully with children, young people, and their parents/carers to ensure that services are appropriate, tailored to individual need, reliable, and sensitive.
4. Ensure that the needs of children and young people are met through the delivery of planned interventions.
5. To act as Lead Professional where appropriate
6. To access wherever possible the fullest range of mainstream community resources and facilities in keeping with our aspirations for social inclusion and to provide activities that enable children to enjoy and achieve.
7. To up-date Sefton's Register of Disabled Children through the completion of face to face interviews with families and annual reviews

Organisational Structure
Head of Service EIP
Service Manager EIP 11+
EIP (Youth Lead)
EIP (Aiming High Lead)
Lead
Healthy Schools / PHSE
Transitions Coordinator
Learning Disabilities Practitioner
Short breaks Team Leader
EIP Family Support Practitioner
EIP (Family Support Worker)
X 2 FTEs
EIP (Short Breaks Practitioner)
X 2 FTE
EIP (short breaks workers) x 4
EIP (youth workers x 1.2
EIP (youth support workers) x 2
EIP (admin)
EIP (Inclusion Practitioners) x 1.5 FTE
EIP (short breaks support workers) x 7 + casual sessional staff

SPECIAL CONDITIONS (if applicable)
This post involves regular evening and weekend and school holiday work including provision of ‘on call’ duties.

Casual car user allowance applies to this post.
GENERAL
This job description is a representative document. Other reasonably similar duties may be allocated from time to time commensurate with the general character of the post and it’s grading.
All staff are responsible for the implementation of the Health and Safety Policy as far as it affects them, colleagues and others who may be affected by their work. The post holder is also expected to monitor the effectiveness of the health and safety arrangements and systems to ensure appropriate improvements are made where necessary.
The Authority has an approved a Equality policy in employment and copies are freely available to all employees. The post holder will be expected to comply, observe and promote the equality policies of the council.
All staff must observe and implement processes concerning data protection to ensure compliance with the enforceable principles of good information handling practice.
Note:
Where the post holder is disabled, every effort will be made to support all necessary aids, adaptations or equipment to allow them to carry out all the duties of the job. If, however, a certain task proves to be unachievable job redesign will be given full consideration.
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A - Application: I - Interview: R - References: X - Interview Exercise(s)
Criteria
Essential
Desirable
Assessment
Qualifications;
1.
Level 3 child care qualification or equivalent
X
A
2.
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
X
A
Experience;

3.
Experience of delivering and evaluating leisure opportunities for disabled children and young people.
X
A/I
5.
Experience of working with parents and carers of disabled children and young people.
X
A/I
6.
Experience of working with children and young people with medical/health needs and profound and complex disabilities.
X
A/I
7.
Experience of multi-agency working with statutory or voluntary agencies in order to provide a wide range of different leisure opportunities.
X
A/I
8.
Experience of supervising staff.
X
A/I
9.
Experience of consulting with disabled children and young people, their parents/carers and stakeholders/partners when delivering and evaluating services.
X
A/I
10.
Experience of dealing with child safeguarding issues.
X
A/I
Knowledge of:
11.
Knowledge of Local Government policies and procedures.
X
A/I
12.
Knowledge of government initiatives, legislation, and key reports relating to disabled children and their families.
X
A/I
13.
Knowledge of the role and function of the various statutory and voluntary agencies, which provide support to children with special needs.
X
A/I
14.
An understanding of the vulnerabilities of disabled children and the need to ensure their safety and to promote their independence responsibly.
X
A/I
15.
Knowledge of child safeguarding policies and procedures with particula

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