Family Support Worker – Accommodation

• Locations

  Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

• Salary

  Up to £13 per annum

• Sector

  Social Care, Social Care & Health

• Type

  Temporary

We are recruiting for a Temp to Perm Family Support Worker in Nottingham. If your interested please click apply!

Job Type: Temp to Perm

Location: NG1, Nottingham

Hours : 18 hours per week ( 3 days )

Hourly rate: £13.50 + holiday pay

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality case work support to survivors of domestic violence. You will carry a varied case load, working with each woman and her children throughout their journey, managing and prioritising cases effectively.
• Advocate on behalf of women and children with external agencies including where appropriate MARAC, courts, housing, children and adult social care, health and other voluntary and community organisations.
• Attend case review and team meetings and contribute to effective team communication.
• Contribute to the delivery of service outcomes and use clear and coherent targets and monitoring systems to provide evidence that Survivor outcomes are met.
• Contribute to Survivor feedback and voice in service delivery and service development.
• Ensure service standards are maintained and all policies and procedures complied with.
• Carry a varied caseload, working with each survivor, managing and prioritising cases effectively
• Work with the whole family (where appropriate) to agree risk and needs assessments and develop and implement personal safety plans
• Carry out risk assessments with the child/young person including the Teen DASH RIC and refer to the MARAC where an assessment is high risk
• Advocate on behalf of the child/young person to other agencies and/or support survivors to self-advocate, linking them to appropriate agencies and community-based support.
• Plan and provide creative sessions which include understanding Domestic Abuse and address the health and emotional wellbeing of the child/young person
• Plan, create and deliver therapeutic group work programmes for children and their mothers working closely with internal services and external agencies to ensure safety and well-being of attendees
• Support the women accommodated within Juno accommodation services to meet the needs of their children, offering information and practical support including parenting, addressing challenging behaviour from their children, registering with appropriate agencies including nurseries/ schools and attendance at meetings.
• Attend case review and team meetings and contribute to effective team communication.
• Keep and maintain accurate and confidential records of all work undertaken.

Person specification:

• Clear Enhanced Child & Adult Workforce DBS.
• Experience supporting survivors of Domestic Abuse.
• Experience engaging with service users of all ages.

For more information, please click apply!

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