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Family Support Worker

Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent (On-site)
£23,868 - £29,172 per year
Part-time (16 hours per week)
Contract (1 year and 6 months)
Job description

At Barnardo's, our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need.

Would you like to be involved in this unique opportunity to support Young People in the Achieving Change Together Plus Service, Barnardo's Cymru? 

Who are the Achieving Change Together Plus Service?

The Barnardos Achieving Change Together Plus Service will provide support for disabled young people (18-25) and their families, who live in Blaenau Gwent. This service will extend the support that is currently provided by the Achieving Change Together Service (0-18)

 

Service Aims

  • Provide opportunities for young people to gain skills and confidence to lead happy and fulfilled lives.
  • Provide opportunities for young people and families to engage in their local communities, building their resilience and reducing isolation.
  • To work in partnership with other services and organisations to provide a holistic plan of support for the family.
  • Facilitate group work to promote skills development, confidence and independence.
  • To support and enable disabled young people and their families to access mainstream, specialist and community resources that meets their needs.
  • To promote and increase inclusion and accessibility within communities.

 

What does the Job Role involve?

As a project worker (PW1), your duties will include:

  • Utilising effective communication skills to engage young people and families to build collaborative relationships.
  • Supporting young people and families to identify strengths and prioritise support needs.
  • Planning, facilitating and evaluating groupwork programmes and one to one support.
  • Maintaining accurate recordings.
  • Celebrating achievements / successes.
  • Establishing, developing and maintaining productive working relationships with colleagues and other agencies.

You will have: 

  • Experience of working with young people and their families.
  • Experience of undertaking assessments with young people and families to co-produce holistic support plans.
  • Experience of planning, facilitating and evaluating group programmes.
  • Knowledge and experience of safeguarding.
  • Ability to prioritise, organise, self-motivate and work on own initiative.
  • Experience of partnership working with a range of voluntary and statutory agencies.

 

Additional Information:

Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfil the requirements of our job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description/Personal Specification.  Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc. 

 

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

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Barnardo's View profile Company size Size: 501 - 1000
Posted on: 27 June 2024
Closing date: 05 July 2024 at 11:33
Job ref: 19106
Tags: Social Care/Development

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