Family Support Worker

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