Family Wellbeing Keyworker

This is a 1 year fixed term opportunity.

The post holder will deliver an intensive, targeted, high quality whole-family service for Bexley families who are identified as having children and young people who are at risk of poor outcomes and/or at risk of escalating to high need statutory services.

This specialist role forms part of the Family Wellbeing Service. The post holder will need to be experienced in supporting families displaying challenging behaviour to bring about positive change for them and have experience of multi-agency working to support families. This generic role requires the post holder to have transferable skills and to work flexibly across a range of specialisms e.g. parental domestic violence, parental mental health, parental substance mis-use and children at risk of school exclusion. The role requires a dedicated and specialist worker who works alongside families providing both practical support and advice. Families engaged within the service will range from high complex need through to low need.

Through the process of completing a comprehensive assessment of need, the worker will help families to make their own decisions about the changes they need to make, work with families to develop a SMART family support plan and then support the implementation of this plan. By working in a family centred and holistic way staff will ensure improved outcomes and life chances for children and families of London Borough of Bexley (LBB).

The post holder will be required to deliver input and training in specific areas of specialist work to colleagues and other professionals in support of the objectives of the service.

No direct supervisory responsibility however, there may be requirement to assist in induction and training of peers and new employees.

The Post holder will need to have Significant experience in a relevant field (which may include):

Social Work, Teaching, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Youth Work, Counselling, Probation, Health Professions, Education, Early Years.

A minimum of 2 years' experience of working with families, children and young people in need and/or child protection.

Experience of working within a multicultural community and setting.

Knowledge and understanding of current issues in family policy and practice.

Knowledge and understanding of legislation as it affects children, young people and their families, including:
Children Act 1989, Children's Act 2014, Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and relevant education legislation.

Experience of applying evidence based approaches and theoretical frameworks in undertaking assessments and developing interventions for children and families.

Evidence of providing practical advice and support to families to enable them to achieve positive and sustainable change and improving outcomes.

Awareness of equality issues in relation to disadvantaged groups and an ability to apply strategies which promote equal access to services and opportunity.

Experience of managing risk, safeguarding and child protection, within the context of integrated multi-agency working.

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages., Disability Confident
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Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

The Family Wellbeing Service aims to provide help to families early, to prevent difficulties becoming worse. The service works with children and families from 0 to 18 years old.

The service has family key workers who work directly with children and families, providing advice, help and support, they will work with families up to three months and where more intensive support is identified a maximum of up to 6 months.

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document.