Family Support Worker

Targeted Early Help is recruiting to a 37 hour per week Family Support Worker post
in the Shrewsbury area, to be based at Sunflower House.

The role of the Family Support Worker is to support families at all stages, from
pregnancy through to families with older teenagers, and could include young people
up to 25 with an additional need or disability.

The successful candidate will work directly with children, young people and their
families to promote, strengthen and develop the potential of parents/carers and their
children to manage the challenges they face. This will include direct work through
centre-based interventions, school and home visits as well as requesting support
from more specialist services where needed. They will manage a caseload and take
the role of Lead Professional, assessing the needs of family and creating and
coordinating a multi-agency Family Plan of support to ensure that families, some with
complex needs, get the right service at the right time.

The role is varied and challenging, the successful candidate will be able to
demonstrate previous experience of working with families and young people,
requiring wide ranging additional support and be able to appreciate the challenges
families and young people can face. Candidates with experience of working with
teenagers will be particularly welcome.

In addition, the successful candidate will be experienced in multi-agency working,
have resilience and good judgement, excellent communication and problems solving
skills and be adept at using IT to manage their casework.