Family Support Worker

Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : Magdalen House, Bootle, L20 3NJ, Sefton MBC
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £14.09

2 agency family support workers posts to support the CWD service through a period of transition.
Job Purpose:

Deliver family support assessment and interventions for children and young people with disabilities.

Main Duties:

1. To work sensitively with children with moderate to severe learning disabilities, and complex health needs, to develop their social and communication skills, and promote friendships, independence, and self-esteem.
2. To conduct assessments and support the planning of appropriate interventions and outcomes.
3. To consult meaningfully with children, young people, and their parents/carers to ensure that services are appropriate, tailored to individual need, reliable, and sensitive.
4. Ensure that the needs of children and young people are met through the delivery of planned interventions.
5. To act as Lead Professional where appropriate
6. To access wherever possible the fullest range of mainstream community resources and facilities in keeping with our aspirations for social inclusion and to provide activities that enable children to enjoy and achieve.
7. To up-date Sefton’s Register of Disabled Children through the completion of face to face interviews with families and annual reviews

Qualifications;
Level 3 child care qualification or equivalent
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.

Experience;
Experience of delivering and evaluating leisure opportunities for disabled children and young people.
Experience of working with parents and carers of disabled children and young people.
Experience of working with children and young people with medical/health needs and profound and complex disabilities.
Experience of multi-agency working with statutory or voluntary agencies in order to provide a wide range of different leisure opportunities.
Experience of supervising staff.