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Family Support Worker

Job Title: Family Support Worker
Location: Camden
Job Type: Full time/Contract
Pay Rate: £25 Per Hour

The role:

To carefully and thoroughly assess children and families' needs underpinned by the common assessment framework, prescribed screening tools and models of engagement.
To create a whole family action plan and evaluate progress against shared outcomes.
To work in partnership with universal services to support early identification of need and/or risk, ensuring needs are identified in a timely way.
To deliver responsive early intervention packages, including evidence-based programmes and/or refer to appropriate services (universal, targeted and specialist) to meet need, working in partnership with families.
To identify and respond to risk, work with children in need and those in need of safeguarding and their families according to policy and procedure (e.g. London-wide Child Protection Procedures) to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable children and adults at risk.

The candidate:

Satisfactory Enhanced DBS check.
Numeracy and literacy to GCSE level of equivalent
Further education to the level of e.g. NVQ, B-TEC or equivalent in a relevant field
Experience of working with children, young people and families in diverse, inner-city communities