Senior Family Support Worker - Reunification Service Sanctuary Personal

Senior Family Support Worker – Reunification Service

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Family Support Worker within the Reunification Team to work full time based in Redbridge.

The salary for this permanent Senior Family Support Worker job is up to £37,038 per annum.

• Expected to work efficiently using effective communication skills to ensure that the team delivers effective, efficient services.
• To be responsible for holding an individual caseload.
• Maintain good standards of childcare practice.
• Prepare and present reports for a wide variety of audiences (Case Conferences, Core Group Meetings & Court) and support staff, ensuring work is completed to high standards within timescales.
• Participate in referral meetings, reviews, case discussions, core group meetings, case conferences, court and care plan meetings. Organise, chair and take minutes if required. Ensure service users fully understand the process.
• Work in partnership with families, monitoring their needs through accurate record keeping, care planning and case recording, ensuring that information is shared with service users where permissible.
• Serve as a good role model by demonstrating how to approach sensitive and personal issues with parents/carers professionally.
• Keep up to date and implement any legislation or procedures in relation to service delivery, disseminating as necessary to other staff.
• Work with the Early Intervention & Family Support Team to ensure that the organisation and development of services comply with Ofsted-required minimum standards.
• Ensure health and safety procedures are followed within own areas of responsibility, including lone working procedures.

Requirements of this Senior Family Support Worker job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.