Job Description: Outreach Family Support Worker

Who You Are

You are an empowering individual, skilled in using a strength-based approach to provide interventions to children and families, with a keen focus on improving long-term outcomes. You excel in coordinating support with multi-agency partners, ensuring a 'whole family' approach addresses family needs effectively. Your strong interpersonal skills dictate success in engaging with families and children, promoting positive change, and navigating complex family dynamics.

What the Job Involves

The Outreach Family Support Worker takes responsibility for providing high-quality, outreach, and home-based Early Help support to children and their families. This includes acting as case holders for complex cases transitioning from children's social care, offering support on complex cases, providing intensive and targeted support to vulnerable children and young people, and assessing risk and need through early help assessments. You will formulate and coordinate Team Around the Family plans, supporting families to improve outcomes, and encouraging practical parenting strategies. The role necessitates regular visits to homes, smooth transitions between early help and social care, and consistently meeting Early Help Hub Practice Standards.

Skills

• Case management and early help assessment
• Formulating and coordinating family support plans
• Risk and need assessment
• Solution-focused and strength-based approaches
• Child and family engagement and consultation
• Multi-agency collaboration
• Effective record keeping
• De-escalation and behavior management
• Commitment to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices
• Knowledge of safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance
• Usage of Information Technology in municipal frameworks