Family Support Worker X2

Job description

**Directorate: Children and Young People’s Services**

**Permanent, Full time 37 hours per week x2**

**Come and join our fabulous team in the Early Help & Family Engagement Service at Rotherham Council. Help us achieve.**

**Why work for Rotherham Children and Young People’s Services?**

You will be joining an authority Ofsted rate as Good.

You will receive strong management support and oversight, and approachable and supportive senior managers.

You will receive regular reflective supervision.

We provide excellent professional learning and development opportunities underpinned by the Rotherham Family Approach which incorporates ‘Signs of Safety’, ‘Restorative Approaches’, and ‘Social Pedagogy’ as our methodological approach and framework to supporting children and families.

You will experience a positive learning environment to enhance your career and access to a bespoke Learning Academy which supports practitioners across CYPS.

You will have the opportunity to make a real difference to the children and families in the Borough.

We want excellent practitioners to help transform Rotherham by generating a movement where excellent practice is the norm, resulting in consistently better outcomes for all our children. These are in accordance with our ambition to become a leading children’s services authority.

**About the opportunities**:
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The Early Help and Family Engagement Service provide practical help and advice to support families and their children to achieve their full potential. The Service builds on the family's strengths and offers support as problems begin to emerge to prevent issues from getting worse, leading to higher level statutory services becoming involved. The Service supports families with children aged 0-19 years or 25 with a disability and works with the whole family in partnership, to identify the best possible solutions to issues that they might be experiencing. The Service offers a variety of support to meet the needs of children and families. This is delivered by a Lead Professional and the Early Help Assessment is the tool that underpins this work.

Management of a caseload of children and families; carry out detailed and comprehensive Early Help Assessments and multi-agency plans created with the child and family that lead to positive, long terms sustainable change.

To employ evidence-based approaches such as Restorative Practice and Signs of Safety (Rotherham Family Approach) and co-facilitation of evidence based parenting programmes to support children and families in a range of environments.

Coordinate and chair Team Around the Family Meetings and attend other relevant forums that support children and families. This includes being a proactive, ‘can-do’ professional that holds the child and family needs at the heart of practice.

To create and maintain strong multi agency partnerships that promotes effective joint working and appropriate step up and step-down arrangements for families.

Contribute to data collection to highlight the impact of Early Help intervention for children and families.
- Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults._
- Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. _For further information, please visit our _website_._