Family Support Worker – Birmingham

Salary: £18.67 per hour

Your new company
Hays have partnered with Birmingham Children’s trust to support with their recruitment for Family Support Workers.to deliver excellent social work and family support with the city’s most vulnerable children, young people and families.

Your new role
As a Family Support Worker, you will undergo an initial period where you will be fully briefed on all policies and procedures. After this you will be allocated your own case files, complete online caseloads & assessments for families (up to 10 a week) & children (20 a week). Cases do with their health, understanding risk assessments as it could be a case of abuse or drugs & alcohol. You be required to attend home visits when required to do so and must be willing to do that during these times while following guidelines. Most of the time it will be home working unless they need to do a meeting review in the office at Dyson Gardens Children Centre The visits will be mostly in Central Birmingham, and they will require to cover in an emergency so if have own transport will be ideal. Working hours is Mon – Fri 5 days 35 hrs

What you’ll need to succeed
You must have worked in a similar position before, ideally with children, young people and their families. The successful applicant will have an at least 6 months relevant experience in Family support worker role, be able to provide 2 recent referee’s and will ideally be educated to degree level

What you’ll get in return
This is a great organisation to get involved with, they can offer you sector renowned training and valuable experience. You will have the autonomy of your own case files yet have the support of a brilliant manager and team. An attractive hourly rate of £18.67plus 41p mileage and weekly pay. This opportunity is for an initial period of 3 months and then a likely extension subject to funding.

What you need to do now
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