Family Residential Worker - Permanent - Hither Green

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

To maintain a high quality of care and support which meets the physical, emotional, intellectual, social and cultural needs of children and families.

Working from the guidelines from the Family Residential Centre: National Minimum Standards, The Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004 and any other relevant legislation.

To provide a caring, supportive and nurturing environment in which families can feel secure and free from harm.

Establishing positive relationships with families and always offering them unconditional and positive regard.

Helping families progress self-development by challenging unsafe parenting/unsafe parenting and/or unacceptable behaviour and supporting parents to learn about and participate in therapeutic parenting training

Ensuring that each family's care plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs

Attending to practical matters in relation to parenting support and providing training to families around cooking, cleaning, general maintenance around the home etc

To act as a key worker or co-worker for families to ensure that the families care plans are up to date and that all their care needs are being met.

To embed and practice therapeutically when working with families

Providing advice, assistance and support on a to enable families to address past and present difficulties

• Engaging with identified and relevant training

• Recording and reporting information accurately and effectively

• Being ambitious for families helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential

• Providing support for families to access the 'Moving On Moving Up'programme and supporting them to identify relevant training opportunities
• Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on families for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager
• Empowering families and facilitating their active involvement in the decision making about their lives and future
• Acting as an advocate at meetings where the family is the subject of discussion
• Encouraging the family to develop links with the community, attend off-site activities and expand their personal social network to work as part of a team
• Being aware of the aims and objectives of the home and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them
• Attending team/ staff meetings and making a positive contribution to them

Actively working to maintain the immediate environment of the work place including cleaning, organising, tidying.

• Actively contributing to the development of the team
• Receiving and storing information to improve communication
• Being willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers
• Being aware of care plans for all families and providing support for colleagues by maintaining consistency in the execution of those plans

Attending and engaging in supervision both individually and as a group exercise

• Providing informal practical and emotional support to colleagues experiencing difficulties
• Attending and contributing to regular supervision sessions in line with the National Minimum Standards
• Monitoring the conduct of colleagues and referring on any causes for concern (Whistleblowing)
• Being familiar with all policies and procedures and adhering to them General Responsibilities
• Attending family's meetings and contributing to them
• Driving company vehicles/own vehicles (current driving licence holders subject to procedures)
• Receiving training appropriate to the role and maintaining an up to date training profile
• Responsibility for the accurate maintenance of financial records appropriate to the duties of the post
• Responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies

Connect2Staff/Connect2Kent, part of Commercial Services Trading/Kent Ltd, is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.