Family Support Worker

New Today

Cardiff Council Children's services are seeking to recruit a Family Support Worker to join their team based in the Adolescent Resource Centre working predominantly with 11-17 year old's. The role is hybrid working with a mixture of home working, visits in the community with service users and office based work. As such, there is a requirement for the successful candidate to be a car driver as you will still be providing face-to-face support to families across the city where applicable. This is a full time position with an initial contract of 3 months with a view to this being extended on a rolling basis and offering a pay rate of £18.31 per hour.

Duties of the role:

Provide structured, evidence-based interventions enabling families to develop problem solving skills, resilience and achieve positive change
Provide a rapid response to children and families in crisis, enabling them to address and overcome the difficulties that have led to the family being at risk of breakdown, and prevent further escalation.
Undertake initial assessment work with families
Carrying out emergency interventions and support visits to families The ideal candidate will have:

Experience of working with young people and their families
Full UK driving license
Enhanced DBS check
Be able to work upon own initiative and within a teamThe benefits of working with Eilidh at Service Care Solutions:

You will receive a dedicated and personal consultant with a vast knowledge of social work
We are a nationwide supplier of Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities which means we have a wide variety of exclusive roles based all over the country
We provide frequent updates of new opportunities via text and email
We have an expert payroll service which is processed twice a weekAt Service Care Solutions we also offer a £250 bonus for referrals! If you think you know someone who would be ideal for this role and they are placed in the job you will then receive £250 at the end of their probationary period.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply now. Don't miss your chance to become a family support worker at Cardiff Council! To apply for this role, or to refer someone else, then please do not hesitate to contact Eilidh at Service Care Solutions on (phone number removed) or (url removed)
Apply
Location:
Castle Community
Salary:
£18.31 /hour
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Social Care

We found some similar jobs based on your search