Family Facilitator

£27,852 - £31,099 per year. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a family facilitator in our Jig-so multi-agency team based in the Family Support Services in Swansea - a great place to live and work.

**Post title**: Family Facilitator
**Post number**: SS.59125-V4
**Salary**: £27,852 - £31,099 per year

**Directorate/department**: Social Services

**Closing date**:11.59pm, 13 July 2023

**Further information**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a family facilitator in our Jig-so multi-agency team based in the Family Support Services in Swansea - a great place to live and work.

We are looking for an innovative and committed individual to be part of a multi-Agency team of health and local authority staff supporting young or vulnerable parents in the first 1000 days of their child's life. The post holder will work in partnership with families in order to fully assess their needs and understand what matters to them, and build on their existing skills and knowledge and enhancing resilience factors that will support sustainable change.

The post holder will be expected to hold a one to one caseload and run group work, using evaluated and accredited parenting material and programmes, and be able to tailor the programmes to the specific needs of the families. The cases will be a mixture of child protection, child in need, and case holding families not open to social services.

The post will require you to work creatively with parents with a range of complex needs such as - adverse childhood experiences, learning difficulties, mental health issues, substance misuse and any other identified needs.

This is an opportune time to join our organisation as we are remodelling our family support, edge of care and early help services to enable us to better meet the needs of families in Swansea. Ensuring families receive the right support at the right time, from the right place, and as early as possible, will ensure the best possible outcomes for children and families. This will enable statutory children's services to focus on those families with the most complex needs.

At Swansea, we understand the need to nurture and support staff. From the excellent induction process when you join us and throughout your time with us we will support your work and career. The recently implemented workforce wellbeing strategy supports our focus on staff care. You will also benefit from experienced and supportive managers and a risk sensible culture.

We have a very clear vision in Swansea which is well understood by the current workforce, that wherever safe, children should remain in the care of their birth families. Signs of Safety is our practice framework and we have used the reclaiming Social Work model to form supported care planning pods, led by a Practice Lead. This supports good supervision and collaboration between staff. Building positive respectful relationships with families, listening to children and ensuring they are involved in decisions that affect their lives is at the heart of what we do.

For an informal chat about the role please contact Mike Davies on 07584140846

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