Family Support Worker (Project Worker 1)

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.

Who are the Achieving Change Together Service?

The Barnardo's Achieving Change Together Service provides an empowering holistic model of support for disabled children and their families, who live in Blaenau Gwent.

Service Aims

• For parents / carers to feel more confident and equipped to meet the needs of their children.

• For parents / carers to support their child/children to reach their full potential.
• To work in partnership with other services and organisations in order 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 children and their families to access mainstream, specialist and community resources that meets their needs.

What does the Job Role involve? 

As a Project Worker (PW1), your duties will include:

• Utilising effective communication skills to engage children and families to build collaborative relationships.
• Supporting children 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 children and their families.
• Experience of undertaking assessments with children 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