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Support Worker

Job Description

Service Care Solutions are currently recruiting for a Permanent Support Worker for a Children's charity based in Daventry

Our vision is that every child and young person in the country has a safe and happy childhood. To help us achieve this, the role will:

Co-ordinate and direct the support to children, young people and families by agreeing and providing interventions, which may be specialised, enabling positive and agreed outcomes to be achieved, in accordance with organisational policies, procedures and regulatory requirements. They protect and supports children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives.

To help us achieve this, the role will:

- Provide a high-quality service to children, young people and their families, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven.
- Deliver a complex and specialist intervention with children, young people or families on a 1:1 basis, group or community setting.
- Provide lead case/care planning management, including undertaking assessing, reviewing and managing risks.
- Attend and participate at relevant multi agency meetings, providing a lead role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review.
- Take responsibility for day-to-day resource planning to ensure high quality services are delivered.
- Establish and developing effective relationships and channels of communication with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies.
- Retain accurate and contemporaneous records, using various IT systems to capture information and to produce written.

Everyone should:

- Demonstrate a commitment to their defining statement, 'safe and happy childhood', and promote and incorporate Participation Standards as appropriate to your role.
- Achieve the highest standards of safeguarding, whether through direct care provision or support activities to the children and young people who meet our services, or by appropriately reporting concerns about any child or young person.
- Promote our equality and diversity strategy locally, including linking with local equality and diversity frameworks to ensure best practice and to inform and develop appropriate action plans.
- Demonstrate a willingness and ability to operate within a constantly changing environment and as such work priorities and targets may change.
- Recognise that management reserves the right to make reasonable changes to the job purpose and accountabilities.
- Undertake such other duties that occasionally arise, which will always ensure that children across the country have a safe and happy childhood and the foundations they need to thrive.

Working with Service Care Solutions offers many benefits including:

- A specialist consultant within an experienced Social Work recruitment team
- Consistently excellent rates of pay
- An extensive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
- Payroll service twice a week.
- Personal on-going training budgets
- Registrations and DBS paid for by us

If you are interested in applying for this role or if you would like information about any roles in your area please call Matthew at Service Care Solutions on 01772 208964 or email Matthew.Nicholson@servicecare.org.uk.

Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So, if you know anyone who would be perfect for this role, and they are placed into work you receive £250 once their probationary period has been completed.