Disabled Childrens Family Worker

Cornwall Council; Truro; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Truro is looking for passionate Disabled Children’s Family Workers to support disabled children and their families. The role involves collaborating within a multi-disciplinary team to provide coordinated support, conducting assessments and creating Child Support Plans. Ideal candidates should have relevant experience and be committed to making a positive impact on the lives of disabled children, ensuring they receive necessary services and support. This challenging yet rewarding role includes immediate family emergency assistance and requires adherence to statutory language standards.

Qualifications

• Experience working with disabled children and families.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of child support plans and assessments.

Responsibilities

• Support and coordinate services for disabled children and their families.
• Conduct assessments and devise Child Support Plans.
• Provide immediate support during family emergencies.

Skills

Problem solving

Advocacy

Child support planning

Evidence-based intervention

Education

Relevant degree or qualification in social work or related field

Job description

his is an exciting opportunity to join the Disabled Children & Therapy Service (DC&TS) and to work in a specialist, multi-disciplinary team which supports disabled children, young people and their families.

Are you enthusiastic about supporting disabled children, young people and their families? Do you enjoy a career where two days are never the same? Do you excel at problem solving?

Disabled Children’s Family Workers support and coordinate other services to ensure disabled children, young people and their families have what they need. They are advocates on behalf for the children they work with, they work alongside social workers and work with children and families and sometimes provide immediate support at times of family emergency. They regularly review of the children’s needs in a child support plan. Disabled Children’s Family Workers are passionate and committed to working with disabled children and young people aged 0 to 18 years and their parents/carers.

Disabled Children’s Family Workers are supported to attend specific training so that they can use a range of evidence-based approaches and intervention skills such as, Positive behaviour Support, Signs of Safety, Motivational Interviewing, the Family Partnership Model. They use a solution focused approach to their work.

The Role:

The Disabled Children & Therapy Service (DC&TS) is a specialist, multi-disciplinary service which supports disabled children, young people and their families whose main need for services arises from their disability or their intrinsic condition, where these conditions have a substantial or critical impact on the quality of the child’s/young person’s life or/and the lives of their families. The service intervenes where children’s cannot be fully met by universal services alone; it includes a statutory social care service that undertakes assessments that provides services at the acute and complex level of need, and services at Tier 2 through Early Support, Portage and Supporting Change in Partnership.

Disabled Children’s Family Workers work as part of multi-disciplinary teams where disabled children, young people and their families need coordinated support and a regular review of their needs following a statutory social work assessment and child plan. Disabled Children’s Family Workers work under the direction of a Team Manager in the Disabled Children and Therapy Service and the Manager in the Tier 2 Team and hold case responsibility for undertaking direct work with disabled children and young people aged 0 to 18 years and their parents/carers.

Disabled Children’s Family Workers are expected to attain and utilise a range of evidence-based approaches and intervention skills drawn from the core curriculum such as, the Outcomes Star, Signs of Safety, Motivational Interviewing, the Family Partnership Model and use a solution focused, goal orientated approach to their work.

Disabled Children’s Family Workers devise Child Support Plans, undertake Section 17 family assessments undertake direct work with children, maybe required to contribute to a range of social work led support, provide immediate support at times of family emergency and carry out reviews of progress against agreed outcomes using the Child Support Plan.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.