Family Support Worker

Fair Ways is a leading children’s services charity based in the Solent, delivering Fostering, Education, Residential and Family services and cares for over 400 children, families, young people and vulnerable adults each year. Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care.

We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops!

As our Family Services provision continues to grow, we are recruiting for a range of new opportunities across our Residential Family Centres, with positions available to start from January 2027. Families will be referred to the Family Centre if there have been concerns identified around the safety of the children in their current family home. Once with us, the families will be continuously encouraged, assessed and guided through a 12 week stay where they are monitored 24/7 to encourage sustainable positive parenting changes.

As a Family Support Worker with Fair Ways you will deliver the highest standards of care and support to those you care for:

• Being part of a fantastic team - To work as part of the family center staff team ensuring that all required daily tasks are completed appropriately and accurately and work proactively to ensure that the families always receive the highest levels of care and assessment outcomes.
• Keeping families safe - To support the team with any safeguarding issues and the monitoring of good practice within the Family Centre and ensuring safe working practices in accordance with regulatory standards and in line with Fair Ways Policies and Procedures to keep children, families and vulnerable adults safe from harm for the duration of their assessment.
• Assessment Support - To contribute to formal parenting assessments in conjunction with colleagues, recording this in detail, ensuring these are of high quality, fair, robust, and evidenced based. To monitor the family's impact and risk assessment while in placement ensuring their safety and support needs are met at all times and that the families supported by the family centre achieve the correct outcomes.
• Working with external professionals - To liaise with relevant healthcare professionals with and on behalf of the families that are being supported. This could be through attendance at any required meetings, communication via telephone or written correspondence ensuring families have access to the right support and external professionals as required.
• Being a Trauma Informed professional - To oversee and model trauma informed responses through the individualised use of therapeutic support. You will demonstrate the therapeutic importance of maintaining a clean, tidy and homely environment through effective role modelling, ensuring families are supported appropriately during times of crisis and that we demonstrate an understanding of the parents early life experiences, focussing on educating families to understand what is good and healthy for children and babies to grow and thrive.
• Upholding appropriate professional boundaries - To proactively maintain safe and respectful relationships with parents and children through effective support, guidance and care. Observing, assessing and monitoring the health and wellbeing of parents and children within the family centre whilst ensuring the maintenance of safe professional boundaries.
• Professional and personal development - To manage own personal and continuous professional development through self-assessment, supervision and training, in order to maintain good knowledge…