Support Worker - Early Help

Location Ilford
Job type Permanent
Salary £30,699 - 31,731 per year
Reference 194979

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Support Worker within the Early Help Team to work full time based in Redbridge.

The salary for this permanent Support Worker job is up to £31,731 per annum.

Main duties:

  • The Family Support Worker is expected to work in partnership with the Senior Family Support Worker and Managers using effective communication skills to ensure that the team is able to deliver effective, efficient services.
  • To work alongside staff delivering a range of services to families and young children including developing “Team Around the Child” and be responsible for holding an individual case load.
  • As a member of the Families Together Hub provide cover for absent colleagues to ensure a seamless service for the client.
  • To prepare and present reports for a wide variety of audiences and case conferences, core group meetings and court and to support and assist staff to ensure that work in this area is completed to the required professional high standard and within timescales.
  • To participate in referral meetings, reviews, case discussions, threshold meetings, care plan meetings and any other relevant professional meeting. Organising, chairing and taking minuets in team around the child meetings. Ensuring service users fully understand the process.
  • To complete case recordings to a high standard, working with other staff to ensure this is done in line with departmental procedures.
  • To work in partnership with families, monitoring their needs through accurate record keeping, care planning and case recording and gaining consent to share information when appropriate.
  • To be a good role model by demonstrating how to approach sensitive and personal issues with parents/carers in a professional manner.
  • To keep up to date and implement any legislation or procedures in relation to service delivery, disseminating as necessary to other staff.
  • To actively promote and encourage diversity and a multi-cultural ethos through every aspect of the service.
  • To ensure health and safety procedures are followed within own areas of responsibility, ensuring that health and safety requirements are met including lone working procedures.

Requirements of this Support Worker job:

  • A Social Work Degree or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Social Work England registered.
  • Past management experience.
  • Good written and Verbal communication skills.
  • Good timekeeping skills.

Contact:
This Support Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.