View Vacancy -- Senior Family Support Worker

Social Care & Welfare
Permanent
 
£38229 - £41025



Job Title:                    Senior Family Support Worker

Grade                          PO4

Salary:                       £ 38229 - £41025 per annum

Contract:                    Permanent                             

 

About Haringey

Haringey is investing in creating a better borough for all our residents, and bettering the lives of children and young people in Haringey is our first corporate priority. We are located in the north of the capital with a population of approximately 250,000 people and a growing population of 0-19 year olds. We are a diverse and fast-changing borough and tomorrow’s leaders, artists and innovators are busy growing up here.

Haringey is transforming its services for children and young people, and have already made exciting, innovative changes as we strive for excellence in all we do.

In short, we’re a council with high ambitions; a place to work that is full of energy and focus. Our teams have passion, integrity and commitment, and people join us, do so as they see Haringey is a learning organization, and the people that work here strive for continuous improvement in their practice, aiming high to ensure we provide outstanding outcomes for our children.

About the service

We have and continue to develop our Early Help services in order to provide a continuum of support from Universal to Specialist services to enable families to achieve the best outcomes. The delivery model includes three Early Help Locality teams working with children, young people and their families 0-19 (up to 25 with LDD) to deliver an integrated, whole family approach that firmly places children and young people at the heart of our services. Each of the locality teams is managed by a Team Manager. The Locality teams are overseen by the Locality Operational Service Manager.

                       

About the role

This is an exciting time to join the Early Help and Prevention service. The Senior Family Support Worker will have supervisory responsibility for up to five Family Support Workers. The Senior Family Support Worker be managed by and work closely with the Locality Team Manager; and with a wide range of colleagues and partners to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families in Haringey.

 

Within this role you will Support the establishment of a Haringey Early Help Outcomes Framework by ensuring team members evidence the impact of early help, through use of agreed tools to record and track change in families’ outcomes. This will include leading on the identification and monitoring of families meeting criteria for Haringey’s Troubled Families programme.    

Early Help services form an integral element of the wider early help partnership offer available across Haringey, responding to needs assessed as being below Tier 3 (London Safeguarding Children’s Board guidelines), and builds on and complements other services delivered, including universal provision. This role will ensure children and young people are safeguarded by identifying and addressing child protection issues and concerns with colleagues as appropriate. It will Prevent escalation of need and reduce demand for statutory services 

We currently have a vacancy for one permanent Senior Family Support Worker in the East Locality Early Help & Prevention Service

 About you

Above all, you will need to be a collaborative, task focused and assertive individual with proven ability to achieve the best outcomes for families in challenging circumstances.

You will need a recognised professional qualification n relevant discipline (such as Family Support, education, or social care) or comparable skills and knowledge acquired through frontline experience.

You will however, need to be able to evidence substantial equivalent experience of working with vulnerable families from diverse backgrounds to deliver improved outcomes.

 

You will need experience of completing good quality assessments and understanding the needs of children, young people and families in order to co-produce an outcomes-focussed plan.

You will need to demonstrate a clear understanding of and implementing safeguarding and child protection identification and procedures.

 Full skills and knowledge requirements are in the attached Job Description/Person specification

 Other requirement/How to apply

 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. An enhanced disclosure check with the DBS will be undertaken.

  

Closing date: 15 May 2018  

For further information please contact the Haringey Hub: Resourcinghub@haringey.gov.uk

This opportunity is closed to applications.