Children and Young People Family Support Worker (Early Help)

About you:
• You will be passionate about working in partnership with families enabling you to work together to make a positive difference to the lives of children, young people and families as a whole.
• You will have good communication skills, both written and spoken, enabling you to form positive working relationships with all members of a family and professionals.
• You will be value driven, working openly and honestly, and as such, be able to have uncomfortable conversations to work with families in a transparent way.
• You will already have some experience working with different family members to affect change in some way. Ideally having a knowledge base around adverse childhood experiences and trauma.
• You will be purpose driven, creative, flexible and have a drive to learn new knowledge and skills either by attending formal training, linking in with colleagues and professionals and other informal training.
What you will do:
• You will use coaching and strength-based language to work directly with families to explore their goals and provide direct support in the form of direct work, signposting and/or facilitating meetings between families and professionals.
• You will provide advice, guidance and support on an individual and group work basis, to help parents and families access opportunities that will result in ensuring their children have a 'good start' in life. This includes acting as an advocate for families when necessary and appropriate.
• You will work with children and families at the Family Centre / school or in their own homes and/or community settings so that parents/carers can be engaged in activities with their children to promote learning, understanding and attachment and increase social and peer integration.
• You will attend and contribute to supervision and performance development reviews, identify and attend training required, including being up-to-date with safeguarding policies and procedures and take action as necessary.
• You will provide a consistent high standard of professionalism, working in a non judgemental and anti-discriminatory way, including a good telephone and face to-face manner, tact and diplomacy with a caring and positive attitude and responding to customer needs around language and culture.
• You will be a positive, friendly and welcoming in your approach to promoting the service professionally at all times and contribute to monitoring and maintaining appropriate social media as a means of maintaining service provision.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact:
recruitment@powys.gov.uk

This position has a requirement for an Enhanced DBS Check