Family Support Key Worker
Barnardo's
- Bradford
- £27,300-36,029 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work with families, young people, a team of staff, and other agencies to reach families and young people assertively and creatively.
- Carry out a comprehensive Early Help Assessment with families and young people, involving them in the process and producing a plan that you then share and monitor with the family and other professionals.
- Deliver support flexibly which is tailored to the needs of the family, including home visits, face to face support, telephone and virtual calls.
- Signpost to partner agencies based on the needs identified.
- Support families to navigate their way through referral pathways and enable them to access universal and targeted services.
- Where required advocating on behalf of families supporting parents and carers to communicate with professional services.
- Support family members to access local services through Locality Hubs and via the FYI website
- Experience of working with families with complex needs and the ability to build and maintain rapport through effective communication and listening skills, using a whole family approach.
- Evidence of the coordination and completion of an assessment of need in relation to a young person or family.
- A good understanding of the socio-economic factors impacting on vulnerable children and families
- A good knowledge and understanding of local services and provision, skills to enable and connect Families into appropriate local Services to support with wider identified needs.
- The ability to take a trauma informed and strengths-based response to families highlighting their resilience and working with them to identify additional support they require.
- Experience of applying safeguarding and child protection policies/procedures
- Ability to accurately and clearly record case notes deploying the necessary standard of report writing. This will be supported by good IT skills to record and maintain accurate data.
- Relevant level 3 qualification or above in a Health, Education or Social Care Qualification
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer