Seven Resourcing are currently seeking a Family Support Worker to work within Durham Council. This is a full time position, and we are paying £17.11 per hour for this role.
The role:
Some families in County Durham experience a range of factors which place outcomes for their children at risk, these include poverty, parental substance misuse, domestic abuse, crime and/or anti-social behaviour, poor school attendance and worklessness. The aim of the Family Support Worker is to provide practical help at the earliest opportunity to enable these families to make significant and sustainable changes that will impact positively upon themselves and their children. To do this the Family Support Worker will provide practical help to families that is agreed as necessary between the family and their Social Worker
Key Responsibilities:
Provide practical help and intensive interventions to families that contribute to meaningful positive change. This may include supporting families to make and attend appointments, modelling appropriate actions and behaviours and assisting the necessary day to day activities that enable families to progress and maintain positive outcomes;
To build and maintain high quality and appropriate professional relationships with children, young people and their families to enable positive change to take place;
To work with parents to enable them to identify, ackn...