Family Worker

Family Worker

Location: Exeter, EX1 2NJ

Salary: £24,020 - £30,790 per annum

Contract: Full time Permanent

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 – 17:00

This is an exciting opportunity to join Humankind's team, supporting service users and families affected by substance use.

The Role

They are looking for someone who is passionate about people, able to offer advice, information, assessment, and ongoing support, promoting health and wellbeing, developing resilience and self-confidence, helping them to thrive.

They are looking for someone who is hard working, flexible, and able to work with service users on-site and in the community.  They welcome people with lived experience, and those with experience of working with other partner agencies such as schools and Children's Services. 

Duties will include but not limited to:

• Manage a service user caseload, devising, implementing, and reviewing on-going care plans and support, liaising closely with the full range of workers and skills within the service team, including treatment and criminal justice.
• Conduct initial triage and comprehensive assessments with service users.
• To lead effective case management for allocated service users, including on-going processes such as risk assessments, risk management plans, safeguarding assessments, and plans. This includes the effective use of an online case management system.
• To improve outcomes for children, parents/carers, and families of services users by reducing the impact of drug and alcohol related harm on family life and promote positive family involvement in recovery.
• Identify and prevent potential harm to service users and others by following local and organisational safeguarding guidelines, including referral to and engagement with relevant safeguarding authorities.
• Working closely with other agencies and developing a presence for Together Family Work in the community.
• Working with other Family Workers across Devon and supporting where required across service.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
• Annual leave purchase scheme
• Enhanced occupational sick pay
• Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
• Death in service benefit
• Free Will writing
• Eyecare vouchers
• Blue light card discount
• Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
• Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies
• Happy, Healthy You! – their wellbeing offers for their workforce
• Employee Assist Programme and their Support Networks

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Humankind, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

The organisation is an equal opportunities employer

They value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. They encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. If you have a genuine passion for working for them, they want to hear for you. They also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use.