Family Support Worker (Grade 6 SCP 18-21)

Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : Mount McKinley Building, Shropshire Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:45
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £12.24

This role is for our edge of care project called Stepping Stones and the job title is Outreach Worker the pay scale for this role is paid at Grade 8 £13.44 per hour. See job description attached for details of the role. Hours are availability between 7am – 8pm with some weekend working.
This post will form part of the Stepping Stones Multi-Disciplinary Team offering a multi-agency, holistic approach that has adopted some of the principles and lessons learnt from the ‘No Wrong Door Project’. This will be achieved by implementing wrap-around, individualised support that is tailored to the needs of the young person or parent.

Relationship based practice which includes, Dyadic Development Practice, Restorative Practice, Systemic and Solution-Focused therapies, will be key approaches to providing support for young people and their families.

2. Level & Purpose of Post

You will work within Shropshire’s Children’s Services, with children, adults and families. The role will involve working with children on the edge of care, children in care and supporting children and young people to remain in, or return to, the care of parents and family where it is safe and, in their interests, to do so through support to the adult.

As a qualified Outreach Worker you will assist the delivery of intensive family support to children and young people and their families where:

There is a risk of family breakdown (Edge of Care). An Assessment of Needs identifies support to the child/young person and/or family which may prevent an unnecessary reception into Local Authority care.
There is risk of adoption breakdown.
There is a need to offer a young person additional support to make a successful move into independent living from a care arrangement.
To help a young person stepdown from foster care or residential placement back to the family home.
To support the parent with changes they need to make to remain or return home