Purpose of role: 

To lead a small team of two other family support workers.

To work with and support families that are identified as requiring targeted Family support or help alongside children's social care. The role engages children and families with complex circumstances and carry-out comprehensive assessment and planning working in partnership with the families.

Key accountabilities:

Responsibilities

• To lead the team of family support workers and directly oversee and supervise caseloads
• To be a deputy designated safeguarding lead, responding to cause for concerns and managing the pupil welfare tracker ensuring that safeguarding records are up to date and information is transferred in a timely way.
• To write reports and attend Child protection/ Child in Need meetings
• To undertake AIMS training and complete AIMS checklists
• To attend and support multi-agency planning meetings including: RAMPs and WRAMPS.
• Carry out in depth and comprehensive assessments for children and families that have early help needs
• To support and help develop parent and community  partnerships with school including planning and organising coffee mornings and workshops.
• To provide ‘whole family’ direct work and support using methodological approaches and evidence-based intervention.  This includes effecting first and second order change to enable long lasting change.  
• To engage and work in partnership with other professionals involved with the children and families to deliver tailored intervention that makes a positive difference.  
• To understand and work within legal frameworks, policies and procedures appropriate to children and families.  
• To work with children and families in a statutory, or in an early help arena
• To lead timely advice giving, referral and/or duty processes so that children and families are supported at the right level. This may include acting as a first point of contact.   
• To lead comprehensive, holistic and strengths-based assessment of need where complexity of needs is apparent, and devise and implement appropriate plans for babies, children, young people and families.  
• To ensure the appropriate participation of children and families in their own assessment, plans and reviews and to respond appropriately to non-engagement.  
• To case hold children and families and co-ordinate multi-agency support and meetings to deliver tailored to targeted family support or family help. 
• To arrange and chair professional meetings and reviews with the family at the heart, on a regular basis to track and show progress, including children, young people and families and partner agencies as appropriate. 
• To maintain comprehensive, accurate and up to date records using identified electronic systems and equipment.  
• To write reports as required.

Note: whilst we’ve tried very hard to outline the main responsibilities and duties of the post, the above is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. A document such as this does not permit every item of the day-to-day role to be specified in detail, particularly as this will vary depending on the specific needs of the pupil(s) you are working with.

Also, roles will naturally evolve and job descriptions will be reviewed with jobholders and updated periodically to reflect this.