Senior Family Wellbeing Worker (Full Time)(Permanent) - REN12552

Medirest Signature; Paisley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in Scotland is seeking a Senior Family Wellbeing Worker to enhance the wellbeing of children and their families. This role involves providing evidence-informed support and interventions to improve educational outcomes, particularly for vulnerable groups. Applicants must possess relevant qualifications and substantial experience in assessment, planning, and the delivery of effective support within educational settings.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Regular supervision

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with children and families, especially those with additional support needs.
• Experience in educational settings or liaising with educational partners.
• Understanding of interventions for varied needs including trauma and loss.

Responsibilities

• Support children and families, improving wellbeing and educational outcomes.
• Develop and deliver high-quality support packages.
• Work collaboratively with educational and multi-agency partners.

Skills

Assessment Skills

Planning Skills

Delivery of Interventions

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Professionally recognised qualification in teaching, community education, or social work

Degree qualification in a related discipline

Job description

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This post offers an exciting opportunity to support children, young people, and their families as part of the Whole Family Wellbeing service.

Renfrewshire's Family Wellbeing Service provides early intervention and support to families to prevent family breakdown, and to provide help to families at the earliest possible opportunity to avoid escalation to statutory services.

Renfrewshire's Family Wellbeing service offers a range of innovative supports to children, young people, and their families. Working as part of the school's team within the Family Wellbeing service following the Team around the child framework Senior Family Wellbeing workers offer integrated support based on the principals of Getting It Right for Every Child.

Family Wellbeing service staff also offer evidence-informed interventions including Non-Violent Resistance, Sleep Scotland, and Seasons for Growth. This post would offer a challenge to suitably qualified and experienced staff who are committed to improving the wellbeing, rights, and educational outcomes of Renfrewshire's children, especially the most vulnerable.

Working with children who have additional support needs and their families, supporting vulnerable learners by developing and delivering high quality packages of support, dealing with competing demands and working with our education and multi-agency partners you will benefit from a professional development via a wide range of training and development opportunities and regular supervision.

A professionally recognised qualification in teaching, community education, social work, health, or degree qualification in a related discipline is essential. You must have significant experience of assessing, planning, and delivering a variety of interventions to children, young people and their families, experience of working with young people within an educational setting or liaising closely with educational provision to support learners' achievements, experience of working with children and young people with a range of needs e.g. care experienced CYP and families, young carers, CYP and families affected by loss, CYP and families affected by trauma and experience of integrated planning of support with inter-agency partners.

If successful, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure Scotland check, the level of check will be determined by the duties of the post.

If you would like further information in relation to the Disclosure Scotland checks, please visit www.disclosurescotland.co.uk.