Family Support Worker
Brackenberry
- Sefton, Merseyside
- £15.11 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To work sensitively with children with moderate to severe learning disabilities, and complex health needs, to develop their social and communication skills, and promote friendships, independence, and self-esteem.
- To conduct assessments and support the planning of appropriate interventions and outcomes.
- To consult meaningfully with children, young people, and their parents/carers to ensure that services are appropriate, tailored to individual need, reliable, and sensitive.
- Ensure that the needs of children and young people are met through the delivery of planned interventions.
- To act as Lead Professional where appropriate
- Level 3 child care qualification or equivalent
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
- Experience of delivering and evaluating leisure opportunities for disabled children and young people.
- Experience of working with parents and carers of disabled children and young people.
- Experience of working with children and young people with medical/health needs and profound and complex disabilities.
- Experience of multi-agency working with statutory or voluntary agencies in order to provide a wide range of different leisure opportunities.
- Experience of supervising staff.
- Experience of consulting with disabled children and young people, their parents/carers and stakeholders/partners when delivering and evaluating services.
- Experience of dealing with child safeguarding issues.
- You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
- You should have right to work in U.K