Outreach Family Support Specialist

Gateway Family Services; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible working

Subsidised parking

Job summary

Gateway Family Services is seeking a Family Support Worker to provide outreach support for children, young people and families, delivering targeted packages to prevent escalation to more intensive services.

Based in Harborne/Community settings with families in Edgbaston & Northfield, the role is hybrid and offers flexible working, with 2 FTE posts and a fixed-term contract until March 2027. You will work with a multidisciplinary Early Help team to promote positive change.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering outreach support to families.
• Ability to forge links and establish relationships with partner agencies.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with other practitioner/professionals, children, young people, and their family.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary and professional integrated Early Help service to provide a timely response to the needs of children, young people and their families.
• Deliver evidenced based interventions.
• Provide a timely response to the identified needs of children and young people.
• Promote and use an Early Help Assessment framework.
• Be responsible for a high standard of case recording.
• Engage with children, young people and their families and actively promote their participation in assessments and support plans.
• Manage and prioritise an allocated caseload.
• Organise and participate in planning programme delivery of evidenced based programmes.

Skills

Empathetic communicator

Outreach experience

Community collaboration

Job description

Gateway Family Services is seeking a Family Support Worker to provide outreach support for children, young people and families, delivering targeted packages to prevent escalation to more intensive services.

Based in Harborne/Community settings with families in Edgbaston & Northfield, the role is hybrid and offers flexible working, with 2 FTE posts and a fixed-term contract until March 2027. You will work with a multidisciplinary Early Help team to promote positive change.