Family Support Worker

1 day ago

Rochdale, United Kingdom Rochdale Council Full time

**About the Role**

This position is for a Family Support Worker in the Connected Persons’ Team. The connected Persons’ team is a key part of Rochdale’s commitment to promoting kinship care, where we aim to enable children entering care to remain within their family network wherever possible.

You will contribute to the delivery of training and support groups and work toward developing the local support offer for kinship carers and their families. There is opportunity to develop skills in this role that would prepare you for progression within the social care profession with support from your colleagues and line manager.

**About you**

You will have experience of working within a family support worker role or be experienced working with children and young people. Experience of working with kinship carers or within Children Social Care would be advantageous. You will have good organisational skills and be motivated to work within a fast paced team.

**About us**

At Rochdale Borough Council, we continue on an incredible journey to create a brighter future for Rochdale’s children. As a Local Authority striving to deliver excellent practice, we believe in pushing boundaries and achieving good outcomes for children and families. Our vision is clear and we are looking for a Family Support Worker to join the connected persons’ team who is unwavering in their commitment to promoting kinship care and putting children and their families at the centre of their practice.

This is an exciting time to be joining the service as we have established three Mockingbird Hubs, a Supported Lodgings Service and the fostering team are also working closely with the No Wrong Door hub. In addition we are training all our foster carers in the Secure Base model and Therapeutic Parenting with PACE training. Rochdale BC have adopted and implemented the Family Safeguarding Model and are supporting families to achieve good outcomes in a relational way. In line with this model, motivational interviewing training has been rolled out to all staff.

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