Family Worker

S1jobs; Paisley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

S1jobs in the United Kingdom seeks a Family Worker to deliver systemic interventions for children aged 5-18 and their families in residential, community, and home settings. You will engage parents, carers, and professionals using therapeutic approaches within a supportive SIS team.

The role requires flexible, creative engagement with families facing complex needs and may involve travel across sites. A degree or registered therapy qualification is preferred.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or above with experience providing intervention to families.
• Counsellor or psychotherapist registered with a regulatory body with knowledge of systemic practice and experience with families.

Responsibilities

• To implement a range of systemic interventions for individuals, carers, staff, professionals and families using systemic models.
• To work with young people, children, and their families both within a residential setting and where required within the family home.
• To work in collaboration with the therapeutic practitioners and psychology team.
• To provide consultation to professionals and those using the service regarding systemic formulation and care planning.
• To provide systemic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to an intervention or care plan of those using the service.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of children and families.
• To write reports summarising systemic assessment, formulation or intervention outcomes.

Skills

Car driver

Excellent communication

Team collaboration

Therapy approaches

Education

Degree or above

Job description

Person Specification

Are you interested in making a real change with families with complex needs? The Systemic Family service is part of the Specialist Intervention Team who work with children 5-18 years old who are living away from home. We work across the range of facilities, including the safe centre, community services and early years provisions. You will become an integral part of the SIS team, which is responsible for the planning, implementation and evaluation of a range of specialist interventions for young people and their families. The service prides itself on working alongside families who have previously struggled to engage with services. We are looking to recruit a motivated and passionate family worker to work with families using therapeutic approaches. The post involves providing direct systemic interventions with all of the family, structured work with parents and carers, dyadic work with parents/children, family focused work with children and young people and family support. The role involves working closely with all the systems who work with the young person and their family such as education, the care team, health, support agencies and the local authority. The candidate is required to be flexible, creative, and be able to use playful approaches to engaging children in a therapeutic process. We also work with young people who have complex emotional and behavioural difficulties therefore having an understanding of mental health needs is essential.

Main Duties

• To implement a range of systemic interventions for individuals, carers, staff, professionals and families using systemic models.
• To work with young people, children, and their families both within a residential setting and where required within the family home.
• To work in collaboration with the therapeutic practitioners and psychology team.
• To provide consultation to professionals and those using the service regarding systemic formulation and care planning.
• To provide systemic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to an intervention or care plan of those using the service.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of children and families.
• To write reports summarising systemic assessment, formulation or intervention outcomes.

Person Specification

Essential

Qualifications and Experience

• Educated to degree level or above with experience providing intervention to families.

Or

• A counsellor or psychotherapist registered with a regulatory body with a knowledge of systemic practice and experience of working with families.

Desirable

• A Foundation and/or Intermediate Certificate in Systemic Practice.
• Understanding of the impact of trauma and child development approaches.
• DDP qualification.
• Experience of working with families with complex needs.
• Experience of delivering interventions with families and young people, monitoring individual/group interventions for challenged families.

Essential

Job Related Skills and Achievements

• Car driver with ability and readiness to travel to multiple sites
• Skills to undertake clinical roles and tasks within the multi-disciplinary and multi- agency contexts in which service users are cared for.
• A high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to colleagues, professionals and lay people, and a high level of skill and ability to foster effective partnership working.

Desirable

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Personal Attributes

• Enthusiasm for a broad range of systemic and family therapy approaches that promote family resilience.
• A capacity to establish priorities and organise workload effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to operate successfully within a team-based setting as well as being able to work autonomously.