Family Support Worker

With four main objectives: 

1.  The delivery of emotional support to families and children. 

2. The provision of health promotion support and advice. 

3. The provision of practical support to parents and carers. 

4.  Early Intervention and detection. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Build appropriate networks that will enable you to work closely with colleagues and other professionals & local organisations to support delivery of this service. 

• Ensure that parent and child’s confidentiality is maintained at all times and work within the Bolster Community policy on child protection. 

• Deliver time-limited support to enable families to deal with challenges and crisis and maintain independence. 

• Plan and deliver evidence-based parenting programmes as required. 

• Supporting and signposting parents in meeting with other appropriate agencies (schools, housing, health, social care). 

• Promote healthy lifestyle issues including breast feeding, smoking cessation, healthy eating (including targeting childhood obesity), active lifestyle, oral hygiene etc liaise and work with other agencies such as Health Promotion Teams as and where necessary. 

• Proactively engage with ‘hard to reach’ parents and children by providing clear and identifiable benefits available arising from service engagement. 

• Work in partnership with parents to support them with practical tasks. These could include: 

1. Form filling 

2. Making appointments for advice 

3. Advice/ demonstration on preparing meals 

4. Encouraging parents with strategies for supporting their children in education 

5. Supporting parents in a group 

6. Accompanying parents to appointments 

• Take part in and encourage parents to join in Bolster Community family events. 

• Undertake training identified by management, attend staff meetings and development events. 

• Adhere to the policies and procedures of Bolster Community, strictly observing health and safety regulations and the Bolster Community policy on Child Protection. 

• To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post in discussion with management.