Family Support Worker

Family Support Worker – Lancashire County Council

Fox Morris Group are working to recruit a Family Support Worker

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Make a real difference to families’ lives by delivering tailored support that meets their needs. This includes carrying out Early Help assessments, cocreating SMART action plans, and delivering evidence based interventions that support children and young people to thrive.
2. Working proactively to build trust with families by respecting confidentiality, clearly and sensitively explaining when information must be shared to keep children safe.
3. Champion outstanding practice, ensuring children’s needs are front and centre in every action, decision and interaction, and their voice is central to planning and decision making.
4. Tell the story of your work effectively, recording all interventions in a clear, accurate and non‑judgemental way—supported by thoughtful analysis that demonstrates your impact.
5. Work confidently and independently, using your initiative to respond to families’ needs while seeking guidance wherever it enhances the quality of support.
6. Be a responsible for resources, ensuring any budget used to support children, young people and families achieves maximum impact.

Experience:

1. Experience of, or the ability to demonstrate the competence to, work directly with individual children, young people and families to identify and assess their needs and make appropriate planned responses which seek to improve outcomes.
2. Experience of working with a wide range of other professionals to develop and deliver shared initiatives for children, young people and families.
3. Good understanding of the developmental milestones of children and young people and the issues that affect them in contemporary society.

IF YOU WISH TO APPLY PLEASE RESPOND FIRSTLY WITH AN UP TO DATE CV, AVAILABILITY/ NOTICE PERIOD, THE ROLE YOU WOULD LIKE TO APPLY FOR & THE HOURLY RATE YOU REQUIRE. 

We do not hold CV’s on file without first speaking.