Job Introduction
Grade 9 and Grade 10 posts available. Our developing Family Help service aims to provide targeted support and help to families so that children and families can thrive and more families are able to stay together. We recognise that providing the right type of support at the right time for families is key to working effectively and that lasting relationships with professionals is central to working alongside families and their networks. Working alongside families using our Restorative Model of practice, we use family led-decision making strategies and Motivational Interviewing skills to help families access creative and targeted support packages that will help to develop meaningful and lasting change for families. This includes increased capacity to manage complex parenting challenges and reducing risks within family networks and across our community.
Our Family Help service is delivered through the ‘Family Safeguarding model’ which delivers a whole family approach to support. Social workers and Family Help practitioners will co-ordinate the support offered to families drawing on the knowledge and skillset of experienced Child Practitioners, Drug and Alcohol practitioners’ Probation Officers, Domestic Abuse Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. The Family Safeguarding programme is used to inform our direct work with families and our model of supervision is reflective group supervision involving those practitioners involved in supporting a family.
We are based centrally at Cable Plaza, Dudley Waterfront but our Family Help service is a locality-based model. Teams working closely alongside Dudley’s 5 Family Hubs provide early support to families through their links with our local partners. As the Family help service continues to develop, improved relationships between Family Help practitioners and our local partners will enable more families to be supported earlier when problems and difficulties are easier to address.
We believe our children and families deserve the consistency and stability in the support provided. Our service works with families who require a single assessment, a co-ordinated plan including child protection plans and we undertake pre-proceedings and care proceedings work. We recognise that strong permanency planning for our children is key to supporting family relationships and networks, even when it is not safe for children to remain within the care of a parent. Our kinship offer is developing and we work closely with our kinship team to secure creative and supportive plans for family networks.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate the support offered to families drawing on the knowledge and skillset of experienced Child Practitioners, Drug and Alcohol practitioners’ Probation Officers, Domestic Abuse Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners.
- Apply the Family Safeguarding programme to inform direct work with families.
- Participate in reflective group supervision involving the practitioners supporting a family.
- Provide a single assessment and develop a coordinated plan including child protection plans.
- Undertake pre-proceedings and care proceedings work.
- Work with the kinship team to secure creative and supportive plans for family networks.
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