Family Support Specialist

2 weeks ago


Forres, Moray, United Kingdom Moray Council Full time
Job Description

The Family Link Worker will provide targeted supports to families, children, and young people to address home-based barriers to learning, support transitions, and promote resilience, wellbeing, and positive engagement with school, family, and community-based learning opportunities.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work in partnership with schools and early learning centres, relevant professionals, and community partners to effect positive outcomes and signpost to relevant support resources.
  • Establish trusting and empowering relationships with families, children, and young people; assess need and develop, deliver, and evaluate family, individual, and small group work programmes to meet identified priorities.
  • Deliver face-to-face support interventions, including relational family work, nurture and restorative interventions, Emotions Coaching, Circle of Friends, and Seasons for Growth.
Requirements
  • Experience of working relationally with families, children, and young people.
  • Experience of work within an educational or community setting.
  • Experience of needs assessment.
  • 4 SQA National 4s, or Standard Grade Level 3 or above, or equivalent, including English and Maths.
  • Self-confident and self-motivated.
  • Able to demonstrate a commitment to implementing equality of opportunity in all areas of work.
  • Ability to work on own initiative and respond appropriately within sensitive work environments.
  • Effective communication skills, oral and written.
  • Effective organisational, information recording and collation, and time management skills.
  • Ability to work as part of a team, including contributing to service development.
  • Display ability and commitment to training and subsequent staff development as required.
  • A working knowledge of Word, Outlook, Excel.
  • Ability to work relationally with a range of partners.
  • Ability to work with challenging and/or vulnerable families, children, and young people.
  • Ability to respond flexibly and with resilience to emotionally demanding situations.
  • Knowledge of child development and childcare.
  • Ability to participate in/contribute to assessment and planning.
  • Ability to plan, facilitate, lead, and evaluate activities.
  • Ability to work directly with small groups or on a one-to-one basis.
  • Commitment to undertake training/staff development as relevant to the post.
  • Ability to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Moray to meet the operational requirements of the Service.

This is a temporary position until 27 June.

Starting Salary: £26.80 (pro rata), £13.88 per hour, 30 hours per week (47 week contract).



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