Children and Families Caseworker

2 weeks ago

Swansea, United Kingdom St Giles Trust Full time

**Job Reference**:

- CFC-231**Salary**:
**Contract Type**:

- Fixed Term/Part Time**Contract Length**:

- This post is funded until 30th September 2024**Working Hours**:

- Part time, 17.5 hours per week**Location**:

- Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot**Job Summary**:
St Giles Trust is a Charity helping people facing severe disadvantage to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. We help them to become positive contributors to local communities and wider society. We passionately believe everybody is capable of changing their lives. Our mission is we empower people to overcome injustices for themselves, their families and their local communities - we achieve this through offering support from someone who has been there. Our peer-led services form the backbone of our work.

**BACKGROUND**:
For many families there are issues that precede a young person’s gang involvement. Personal circumstances typically involve poverty, unsuitable housing, separation, family conflict, domestic abuse, substance misuse, mental health and imprisonment.

Gang involvement increases the risk of violence and victimisation to the young person, their friends and their family, therefore, it essential when supporting young people to exit gangs we adopt a ‘whole family’ approach.

A ‘whole family’ approach involves working with the family to assess risk, ensuring all family members feel safe, mentoring young people who are involved in or at risk of gang and serious youth violence and offering holistic support to enable the family to achieve their potential and raise aspirations.

Without the right support, families can become trapped in a cycle of homelessness, crime, unemployment and poverty that is passed on from generation to generation.

St Giles Trust solution to this stark reality is our Children & Families Service. The C&F team offer an intensive and holistic approach that seeks to understand the complex and inter-related family issues behind poverty in order to resolve them. Children & Families Caseworkers break the cycle, unlocking chaotic families’ potential, and empowering them to raise themselves out of poverty.

**Key Deliverables**:

- To develop and maintain relationships with other agencies, ensuring a steady flow of referrals to the project; in particular schools, PRU’s, Youth Offending Services and Children’s Social Care.
- To support families using a 1:1 tailored and holistic practical & emotional support to improve mental health & wellbeing, housing, finances, living environment and increase their readiness to engage in training and employment
- To complete initial needs assessments with families and support them to develop individual action plans and regularly review to assess progress
- To promote inter-agency collaboration in the assessment and planning process and to include involved agencies in the delivery of the services
- To carry out and review thorough risk management plans with families ensuring each family member has an age-appropriate safety plan
- Provide a client led support service that responds to individual’s needs. Key elements will include supporting with housing, finances, schooling, parenting, health and wellbeing, ETE and criminal justice
- To support families who are affected by domestic violence, this will include working with victims and perpetrators
- To deliver the service in a timely and targeted manner, working through identified issues on the action plan, promoting case closure as an achievable outcome
- To close cases effectively and positively, identifying a survival plan for the client that can be used for ongoing support and agencies that can be used if serious problems develop in the future
- To support the Team Leader with other tasks as and when required
- To carry out any other similar duties as required, including providing support to other St Giles Trust projects on occasion.

**What we are looking for from you - Person Specification**

**Experience**:

- Experience of working with socially excluded children, young people and adults. (A)
- Experience of providing advice and guidance and/or mentoring to Families. (A)
- Experience in negotiating and networking with partner agencies to establish links to further the aims of a project.
- Experience of successfully engaging with challenging families and young people, for example people those who have complex needs, people who are reluctant to discuss their needs, and people who are angry and confused.

**Qualifications**:

- Mentoring Level 3 qualification (or be willing to work towards this). (A)
- Any other level 3 and up qualifications.

**Knowledge**:

- Knowledge of anti-discriminatory working practices, and the implications of both within the working environment.
- Knowledge of and commitment to safeguarding practices and policies, and an ability to promote safeguarding among vulnerable clients and colleagues. (A)

**Skills & Abilities**:

- Ability to be a flexible and co-operative member of a team.
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