Family Support Worker

Service Care Solutions; Cardiff; Hybrid; Full time

Job summary

Service Care Solutions is seeking a Family Support Worker for Cardiff Council to provide vital support to children and their families. This full-time position offers a blend of home working, community visits, and office duties. Ideal candidates will enjoy working with families, have a driving license, and possess relevant experience.

Benefits

Dedicated personal consultant

Expert payroll service

Qualifications

• Must have full UK driving license.
• Enhanced DBS check is required.
• Experience working with families is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct supervised contact visits with young people and families.
• Perform initial assessments and emergency interventions.
• Manage a case load of families.

Skills

Experience with young people

Working independently

Team collaboration

Job description

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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:

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

The ideal candidate will have:

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

The benefits of working with Eilidh at Service Care Solutions:

• You will receive a dedicated and personal consultant with a vast knowledge of social work
• We are a nationwide supplier of Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities which means we have a wide variety of exclusive roles based all over the country
• We provide frequent updates of new opportunities via text and email
• We have an expert payroll service which is processed twice a week