Job Description DIRECTORATE: Education & Family Support DEPARTMENT: Integrated Working & Family Support POST: Intensive Outreach Worker GR07 GRADE OF POST: RESPONSIBLE TO: Senior Family Support Worker JOB PURPOSE: To work with children, young people and their families known to social service departments, adopting a person centred approach. Deliver responsive, flexible and supportive packages of support to assist them in achieving and sustaining the necessary changes to ensure children and young people are safe and have access to opportunities which will ensure their wellbeing and maximise the chances of them reaching their full potential. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES: To work specifically with Children who are known to Social Services due to being in need of services, in need of protection or have become Looked After. Build constructive and supportive, professional relationships with service users ensuring the needs and views of children, young people and their families remain central to service delivery and development. Deliver tailored, evidence based, interventions to individual family members, the family as a unit and themed group work as required. Including parenting programmes both individual and group. Work within a co-located multi-agency team enlisting, communicating and co-ordinating with partners in response to identified need. Focus on reducing risk and increasing the protective factors associated with resilience. Work from a strengths based empowerment model to assist family members to gain or re-gain positive control over their own lives. Maintain accurate, up to date, and relevant case recordings and other records as specified in departmental guidance and procedures utilising the Integrated Children’s System.
Job Description DIRECTORATE: Education & Family Support DEPARTMENT: Integrated Working & Family Support POST: Intensive Outreach Worker GRADE OF POST: GR07 RESPONSIBLE TO: Senior Family Support Worker JOB PURPOSE: To work with children, young people and their families known to social service departments, adopting a person centred approach. Deliver responsive, flexible and supportive packages of support to assist them in achieving and sustaining the necessary changes to ensure children and young people are safe and have access to opportunities which will ensure their wellbeing and maximise the chances of them reaching their full potential. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES: To work specifically with Children who are known to Social Services due to being in need of services, in need of protection or have become Looked After. Build constructive and supportive, professional relationships with service users ensuring the needs and views of children, young people and their families remain central to service delivery and development. Deliver tailored, evidence based, interventions to individual family members, the family as a unit and themed group work as required. Including parenting programmes both individual and group. Work within a co-located multi-agency team enlisting, communicating and co-ordinating with partners in response to identified need. Focus on reducing risk and increasing the protective factors associated with resilience. Work from a strengths based empowerment model to assist family members to gain or re-gain positive control over their own lives. Maintain accurate, up to date, and relevant case recordings and other records as specified in departmental guidance and procedures utilising the Integrated Children’s System.