Kinship Family Support & Resource Worker (Flexible Hours)

North East Combined Authority; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Middlesbrough Council in the Tees Valley region is offering a Kinship Family Support / Resource Worker role, focused on helping children and kinship carers access appropriate support and services. You will work with social workers to promote change, maintain records and ensure family stability, sometimes outside office hours.

The post involves working across Middlesbrough and possibly out of county, with duties spanning safeguarding, trauma-informed practice and family engagement.

Responsibilities

• To work alongside experienced Social Workers to offer a greater intensity of support to young people and Kinship carers and identify what individuals need and how best to support them and prevent escalation of risk.
• To take a systemic approach and focus on effecting sustained change to improve the life chances of children in Kinship Care, focusing on the whole family dynamics (when appropriate).
• Supporting Kinship Carers and young people to engage in family group conferences, care teams or Cared for Reviews, meetings with education with the aim of achieving placement stability.
• To work within a framework that is firmly underpinned by the principle of strengths based relational Social Work and address behaviours linked to, or because of, adult and childhood trauma and compromised child/parental relationships and capacity.
• To contribute to ongoing assessments, statutory reviews and achieving sustained outcomes for children, young people and Kinship Carers.
• To support carer development through training, one to one and support groups to Kinship Carers.
• To support Kinship Carers in understanding why children and young people may engage in risk behaviours, make poor choices and a lack of consequential thinking whilst facing the pressure from external influences such as peers and social media.
• To engage young people (teenagers) who are deemed at risk of not meeting their potential through disengaging with education, misusing alcohol and substances, involvement with crime and or anti-social behaviour or have health issues that are impacting upon their lifestyle and choices and re-engage them in pro social activities.
• To maintain appropriate records on the social care database and adhere to national and LA guidance on confidentiality and information-sharing.
• To maintain high professional standards and a commitment to developing knowledge of local, regional and national provision for children, young people and families, along with knowledge of new legislation, research and good practice.
• To work within a flexible framework to deliver intervention to children and kinship carers, will include some evenings and early mornings.
• Such other responsibilities allocated which are appropriate to the grade of the post.
• There may be times when you are required to support families and carers around facilitating family time.
• This will include working with young people to understand their life journey through creating life story books.

Job description

Middlesbrough Council in the Tees Valley region is offering a Kinship Family Support / Resource Worker role, focused on helping children and kinship carers access appropriate support and services. You will work with social workers to promote change, maintain records and ensure family stability, sometimes outside office hours.

The post involves working across Middlesbrough and possibly out of county, with duties spanning safeguarding, trauma-informed practice and family engagement.