Family Support Worker

Durham Council Children's services are seeking to recruit a family support worker to join their team based in Seaham. The role is hybrid working with a mixture of home working, visits in the community with service users and office based work. As such, there is a requirement for the successful candidate to be a car driver as you will be providing face-to-face support to families where applicable.

Duties of the role will include:

• Collaborate with social workers and other team members to support vulnerable families
• Deliver all aspects of parenting work designed to empower and assist parents
• Facilitate and supervise family contact sessions, ensuring safety and positive interaction
• Support and facilitate transport arrangements for children and families
• Monitor and report on family progress, maintaining detailed records
• Promote and uphold safeguarding standards at all times
• Assist in creating care plans tailored to family needs
• Offer emotional support and practical advice to families and children

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of working with young people and their families
• Full UK driving license
• Enhanced DBS check
• Be able to work upon own initiative and within a team

The role is a temporary, full time position for an initial period of 3 months with a view to this being extended on a rolling basis and is offering a pay rate of £16.59ph (£21.58 per hour via an umbrella company).
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The benefits of working with Eilidh at Service Care Solutions:

• You will receive a dedicated and personal consultant with a vast knowledge of social work
• We are a nationwide supplier of Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities which means we have a wide variety of exclusive roles based all over the country
• We provide frequent updates of new opportunities via text and email
• We have an expert payroll service which is processed twice a week

If you think you know someone who would be ideal for this role and they are placed in the job you will then receive a £75 bonus for referrals!