Senior Family Support Worker, Reunification Service

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Family Support Worker within the Reunification Team to work full time based in Redbridge.

The salary for this permanent Senior Family Support Worker job is up to £37,038 per annum.

Main duties:

• The Family Support Worker is expected to work efficiently using effective communication skills to ensure that the team is able to deliver effective, efficient services.
• To be responsible for holding an individual case load.
• Maintain good standards of childcare practice.
• To prepare and present reports for a wide variety of audiences and (Case Conferences, Core Group Meetings & Court and to support and assist staff to) ensure that work in this area is completed to a high standards within timescales.
• To participate in referral meetings, reviews, case discussions, core group meetings, case conferences court, care plan meetings and any other relevant meetings. Organizing, Chairing and taking minuets if required. Ensuring service users fully understand the process.
• To work in partnership with families, monitoring their needs through accurate record keeping, care planning and case recording ensuring that information is shared with service users where this is permissible.
• To be a good role model by demonstrating how to approach sensitive and personal issues with parents/carers in a professional manner.
• To keep up to date and implement any legislation or procedures in relation to service delivery, disseminating as necessary to other staff.
• To work with the Early Intervention & Family Support Team to ensure that the organisation and development of services comply with Ofsted required minimum standards.
• To ensure health and safety procedures are followed within own areas of responsibility, ensuring that health and safety requirements are met including lone working procedures.

Requirements of this Senior Family Support Worker job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Senior Family Support Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.