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Family Support Worker

Service Care Solutions Ltd

Cardiff

Hybrid

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a dedicated Family Support Worker to join their dynamic team in Cardiff. This full-time role offers a hybrid working model, allowing you to engage with families through home visits and office work. You will be responsible for conducting assessments, providing emergency support, and maintaining a case load of families. With a focus on collaboration and community impact, this position is perfect for someone passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people and their families. If you're ready to take on this rewarding challenge, seize this opportunity to contribute positively to your community.

Qualifications

  • Experience working with young people and families is essential.
  • Must possess a full UK driving license and enhanced DBS check.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct supervised contact visits with families and young individuals.
  • Perform initial assessments and emergency interventions for families.

Skills

Experience with young people and families
Ability to work independently
Team collaboration
Driving license
Enhanced DBS check

Job description

Cardiff Council Children's services are seeking to recruit a Family Support Worker to join their team. The role is hybrid working with a mixture of home working, visits in the community with service users and office based work. As such, there is a requirement for the successful candidate to be a car driver as you will still be providing face-to-face support to families across the city where applicable. This is a full time position with an initial contract of 3 months with a view to this being extended on a rolling basis and offering a pay rate of £15.43 per hour.

Duties of the role:

  1. Carrying out supervised contact visits with young people and their families.
  2. Undertake initial assessment work with families.
  3. Carrying out emergency interventions and support visits to families.
  4. Holding a case load of families that you will work closely with alongside the assistance of the Social Worker.

The ideal candidate will have:

  1. Experience of working with young people and their families.
  2. Full UK driving license.
  3. Enhanced DBS check.
  4. Be able to work upon own initiative and within a team.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply now. Don't miss your chance to become a family support worker at Cardiff Council! To apply for this role, or to refer someone else, then please do not hesitate to contact Eilidh at Service Care Solutions on 01772208964 or eilidh.nicol@servicecare.org.uk.

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