Family Support Specialist

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom CRA GROUP LIMITED Full time

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Family Support Specialist to join our team at CRA GROUP LIMITED. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to work with families and children, providing support and guidance to help them achieve their goals.

About the Role:

As a Family Support Specialist, you will be responsible for organising your work independently, working to agreed standards to ensure that families and children receive an excellent service. You will need to have the ability to prioritise work, produce clear and accessible reports that are transparent and family-minded.

This role involves progressing contacts in collaboration with MASH social workers, offering immediate help visits and making recommendations where families need an early help assessment. You will need to be able to facilitate helping conversations that involve families in accessing the most appropriate support services.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience of complex whole family direct work with children and their families within an early help context. You will also have experience of guidance and best practice in work with 0-19 year olds and their families, as well as knowledge of relevant childcare and education legislation.

Key Responsibilities:

• To engage families in recognising the need for change in order to improve outcomes for their children and work with them to achieve sustainable changes

• To conduct whole family assessments that consider risk factors such as poor school attendance, physical and mental health issues, substance misuse, worklessness, offending, exploitation, financial difficulties, safeguarding, domestic violence and parental conflict

• To create a whole family plan with families that includes the voice of children and has SMART objectives to address risk factors and improve outcomes for children

• To review progress of family plans regularly and plan exit strategies to sustain progress

• To use evidence-based tools that engage families and can show progress against identified needs

• To deliver evidence-based direct work to children, parents and families to address risk factors in a 1:1 family or group setting using a variety of professional skills

• To work purposefully with schools, health professionals, voluntary sector, police, social workers and other professionals to achieve best outcomes for children

• To act as lead professional and coordinate Team Around the Family meetings, holding others to account for the delivery of agreed actions

• To manage a complex caseload of families and balance competing demands as needs arise, ensuring timescales for casework are adhered to, demonstrating best practice to other less experienced staff

• To provide written and verbal reports that demonstrate appropriate analysis of issues and support others in developing these skills

Requirements:

• Significant experience of complex whole family direct work with children and their families within an early help context

• Experience of guidance and best practice in work with 0-19 year olds and their families, as well as knowledge of relevant childcare and education legislation

• Recognised and relevant academic and/or professional qualification at level 5/Degree level or higher in direct work with families, or significant experience in complex whole family work

• Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level

Salary:

$60,000 - $80,000 per annum depending on experience

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