Family Support Practitioner

Action for Children; Caerphilly; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent children's charity in Caerphilly is seeking a Family Support Practitioner to deliver therapeutic family support to children and their families. This role involves collaborating with professionals to address social and emotional needs, managing caseloads, and providing targeted interventions to promote wellbeing and resilience. The position offers a comprehensive rewards package, including a competitive salary, extensive leave, and professional development opportunities, making a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable families.

Benefits

29 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible maternity and paternity packages

Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution

Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility

Professional development programme

Qualifications

• Strong work experience of working with children, young people and their families providing one to one and family work in the community.
• Ideally you’ll have experience of delivering targeted early interventions for children and young people.
• A proven record of working collaboratively with schools, social services and health partners.

Responsibilities

• Working with a range of professionals to ensure the children and young people you support develop their full potential.
• Delivering a time limited intervention up to 12 weeks in collaboration with the child or young person and their family.
• Liaising closely with your Practice Team Leader and colleagues.

Skills

Strong work experience with children and families

Experience in delivering targeted early interventions

Collaboration with schools and social services

Ability to manage a caseload

Experience in Team Around the Family meetings

Initiative and teamwork capability

Job description

Family Support Practitioner

Salary: £25,950 per annum

Location: Caerphilly

Contract/Hours: Fixed term contract until 31 March 2027 – 37 hours per week

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
• We’re offering a highly competitive rewards package, plus a comprehensive supervision and development programme to continue your professional development.
• We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

Find out more about Action for Children here: Action for Children and on LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

The difference is what you do. You can learn more about why we do it, by checking out our 'Driven by Love' video.

A bit about the role

Action for Children's Gwent Family Intervention Team is a targeted early intervention therapeutic service for children, young people and their families aged 3-16 delivering across Gwent. Our work is underpinned by psychological therapies including attachment, systemic psychotherapy, and behavioural approaches.

Our Family Support Practitioners reduce the development of more entrenched mental health issues by delivering high quality therapeutic family support which can involve one to one support with parent and child, as well as whole family sessions.

The service offers needs-led interventions that are focused on each family being regarded as unique using formulation and curiosity approaches to help build an understanding of the context that the family live in. We aim to empower families to help support relationships, improve communication patterns, build on resilience, and explore healthy ways to communicate feelings and emotions.

How you’ll help to create brighter futures

As a Family Support Practitioner, you’ll:

• Working with a range of professionals to ensure the children and young people you support develop their full potential.
• Working with a Practice Team Leader, Clinical Psychologist to explore the needs of children and young people where emerging social, emotional, behavioural and emerging mental health issues have been identified.
• Delivering a time limited intervention up to 12 weeks in collaboration with the child or young person and their family.
• Liaising closely with your Practice Team Leader, colleagues and our partners to ensure compliance an excellence.

Let’s talk about you

We’re looking for a Family Support Practitioner who has:

• Strong work experience of working with children, young people and their families providing one to one and family work in the community.
• Ideally you’ll have experience of delivering targeted early interventions for children and young people.
• A proven record of working collaboratively with schools, social services and health partners and responding to safeguarding concerns.
• Experience in managing and holding a caseload of 10 minimum including managing risk and safeguarding.
• Experience of attending and inputting to Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings to meet the needs of vulnerable children and families.
• Experience in delivering time-limited interventions including one to one support and group work delivery and facilitation
• An ability to work on your own initiative but as part of a wider team.

Good to know

Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

Contact: Scott Jones at [e-mail] quoting reference 12366. We’ll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under‑represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

For more information, please review the full job description here

See below for further information about working with us:

Action for Children Employee Benefits

AfC Commitment Statement

Ymarferydd Cymorth i Deuluoedd

Cyflog: £25,950 y flwyddyn

Lleoliad: Caerffili

Contract/Oriau: Contract Cyfnod Penodol hyd at 31 Mehefin 2027, Llawn amser – 37 awr yr wythnos

Buddion

• 29 diwrnod o wyliau blynyddol ynghyd â gwyliau banc ac opsiynau i brynu neu werthu gwyliau
• Pecynnau mamolaeth, mabwysiadu a thadolaeth hyblyg
• Pensiwn gyda hyd at 7% o gyfraniad y cyflogwr, sy’n cynnwys yswiriant bywyd
• Porth disgownt staff a chymhwysedd Cerdyn Golau Glas gyda disgowntiau gan 15,000 o werthwyr cenedlaethol
• Rydym yn cynnig pecyn gwobrau cystadleuol iawn, ynghyd â rhaglen oruchwylio a datblygu cynhwysfawr i barhau â'ch datblygiad proffesiynol.
• Rydym yn gyflogwr achrededig Cyflog Byw Go Iawn

Rydym yn un o'r elusennau plant mwyaf yn y DU ac rydym wedi bod yn gwneud gwahaniaeth i fywydau plant bregus y DU ers dros 150 o flynyddoedd.

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Ychydig am y rôl

Mae Tîm Ymyriadau Teuluol Gwent Gweithredu dros Blant yn wasanaeth therapiwtig ymyrraeth gynnar wedi'i dargedu at blant a phobl ifanc 3-16 oed a'u teuluoedd ac maent yn darparu gwasanaeth ar draws Caerffili Ategir ein gwaith gan therapïau seicolegol gan gynnwys ymlyniad, seicotherapi systemig, a dulliau ymddygiadol.

Ein nod yw lleihau datblygiad materion iechyd meddwl mwy sefydledig trwy ddarparu cefnogaeth therapiwtig o ansawdd uchel i deuluoedd a all gynnwys cefnogaeth un i un gyda rhiant a phlentyn, yn ogystal â sesiynau teulu cyfan. Mae'r gwasanaeth yn cynnig ymyriadau wedi'u harwain gan anghenion sy'n canolbwyntio ar weld pob teulu'n unigryw gan ddefnyddio dulliau fformiwleiddio a chwilfrydedd i helpu i feithrin dealltwriaeth o'r cyd-destun y mae'r teulu'n byw ynddo. Ein nod yw grymuso teuluoedd i helpu i gefnogi perthnasoedd, gwella patrymau cyfathrebu, adeiladu gwytnwch, ac ymchwilio i ffyrdd iach o gyfleu teimladau ac emosiynau.

Sut y byddwch yn helpu i greu dyfodol disglair

• Gweithio gydag amrywiaeth o weithwyr proffesiynol i sicrhau bod y plant a'r bobl ifanc yr ydych yn eu cefnogi yn datblygu eu llawn botensial.
• Gweithio gydag Arweinydd Tîm y Practis, Seicolegydd Clinigol a Seicotherapydd Systemig i archwilio anghenion plant a phobl ifanc lle mae materion cymdeithasol, emosiynol, ymddygiadol ac iechyd meddwl sy'n dod i'r amlwg wedi'u nodi.
• Darparu ymyriad â chyfyngiad amser hyd at 12 wythnos ar y cyd â'r plentyn neu'r person ifanc a'i deulu.
• Cydgysylltu'n agos âg Arweinydd Tîm y Practis, cydweithwyr a'n partneriaid i sicrhau cydymffurfiaeth a rhagoriaeth.

Gadewch i ni sôn amdanoch chi

• Profiad cadarn o weithio gyda phlant, pobl ifanc a'u teuluoedd gan ddarparu gwaith un i un a gwaith teulu yn y gymuned.
• Yn ddelfrydol, profiad o gyflwyno ymyriadau cynnar wedi'u targedu at blant a phobl ifanc.
• Hanes o weithio ar y cyd ag ysgolion, gwasanaethau cymdeithasol a phartneriaid iechyd ac ymateb i bryderon diogelu.
• Profiad o reoli a chynnal llwyth achosion o 10 o leiaf gan gynnwys rheoli risgiau a phrosesau diogelu.
• Profiad o fynychu a chyfrannu at gyfarfodydd Cynllun Gofal a Chymorth. Mynychu cyfarfodydd Amddiffyn Plant a chyfarfodydd Tîm o Amgylch y Teulu i ddiwallu anghenion plant a theuluoedd sy'n agored i niwed.
• Y gallu i ddarparu ymyriadau â therfyn amser gan gynnwys cymorth un i un a darparu a hwyluso gwaith grŵp

Y gallu i weithio ar eich liwt eich hun ond fel ran o dîm ehangach.

Da i wybod

Sylwer na allwn gynnig nawdd ar gyfer y rôl hon

Cysylltwch â: Scott Jones yn [e-mail] gan ddyfynnu cyfeirnod i’w gadarnhau. Byddwn yn hapus i roi unrhyw gefnogaeth sydd ei hangen arnoch chi.

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