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Family Support Worker

Service Care Solutions

Cardiff

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GBP 1,000

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 team in Cardiff. This exciting role involves providing face-to-face support to families, conducting assessments, and working closely with social workers. The position offers a hybrid working environment, combining home visits with office-based work. The ideal candidate will have experience working with young people, a full UK driving license, and the ability to work independently. This is a full-time temporary position with a competitive pay rate and the potential for contract extension. Don't miss out on this rewarding opportunity to make a difference in the community!

Benefits

Dedicated personal consultant
Wide variety of exclusive roles
Frequent updates via text and email
Expert payroll service
£250 referral bonus

Qualifications

  • Experience working with young people and families is essential.
  • A full UK driving license is required for this role.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Experience with young people and families
Ability to work independently and within a team
Full UK 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 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 £16.10 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
The benefits of working with Eilidh at Service Care Solutions:
  1. You will receive a dedicated and personal consultant with a vast knowledge of social work
  2. 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
  3. We provide frequent updates of new opportunities via text and email
  4. We have an expert payroll service which is processed twice a week

At Service Care Solutions we also offer a £250 bonus for referrals! If you think you know someone who would be ideal for this role and they are placed in the job you will then receive £250 at the end of their probationary period.

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 (phone number removed) or (url removed)

Job Info

Job Title: Family Support Worker

Company: Service Care Solutions

Location: Cardiff, Cardiff

Posted: Feb 28th 2025

Closes: Mar 31st 2025

Sector: Social Care

Contract: Temporary

Hours: Full Time

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