Children and Families Worker

3 months ago

Newham, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time

Overview:
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Newham Rise for you to join a dynamic team committed to supporting children and young people who have been affected by someone else’s drug and/or alcohol use. The role of a Children and family Worker will support children and young people under the age of 18 on a one-to-one basis in a confidential space.

The role will deliver a wide range of interventions/ education though activities, such as games, arts and crafts and emotional wellbeing resources. The role will utilise a young person-centred approach, empowering them to explore situations which they feel they have little control over to support them to lead a safe, happy, and healthy life. The role will work in partnership and liaise with other young people services throughout Newham, to provide holistic support to young people accessing the service.

You will be required to work flexibly across operational sites as required.

We need to record information about what we do, so enjoying a bit of admin work and attention to detail is important, but most of the time you’ll be enjoying working with young people from all backgrounds, making a difference to their lives.

Whether you use Newham Rise Services we encourage new ideas and input into everything we do and believe every day is a learning day. Our values are to be open, be bold and be compassionate. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you so click apply.

**Where**:Newham

**When**:ASAP

**Hours**:37.5 per week

**Salary**:£27,449.52 to 31,529.41 plus Inner London Weighting (£4,072.06)

**Responsibilities**:
**About the role**:

- Identify families in conjunction with other agencies, who will benefit from a Think Family / Whole family approach, negotiating participation and engagement with the programme of care
- Ensure that appropriate safeguarding practice is followed at all times, working in partnership with statutory agencies where appropriate;
- Work with service users to support positive, holistic outcomes in relation to their health and wellbeing, enabling them to lead safe, happy, healthy and purposeful lives: reducing risk and increasing resilience
- To develop and deliver training to other professionals on the issues facing CYP and families in respect to substance misuse
- To develop and deliver training to other professionals on the issues facing CYP and families in respect to substance misuse

**About you**:

- Experience of working with families who have multiple risk factors e.g. Parental mental health, parental substance misuse, domestic violence, anti-social behaviour, unemployed, poor / unsuitable housing, parental disability, parental learning disability
- Level 3 qualification in a related health & social care discipline
- Experience of working with young people, families and children under the age of 18 years who are affected by substance misuse
- Experience of delivering 1:1 and group work, including evidenced based interventions.
- Experience of working in close partnership with key stakeholders including Children’s Services, schools, primary care
- Experience of undertaking comprehensive assessments, care-planning, case management and reviews

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each year in the first 5 years service
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Refer a Friend Scheme

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Please read attached Job Description and Role Specifics for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification_**

If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with **Change Grow Live,** then we’d love to talk to

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