Family Support Worker

Adult Social Care; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in Cardiff is seeking a Family Support Worker for a full-time role. This hybrid position involves home-based work, community visits, and office duties. Applicants must have a valid UK driving license and experience with families. Responsibilities include supervising visits, conducting assessments, and supporting families. This opportunity offers a competitive pay rate of £16.62 per hour and an initial contract of 3 months that may be extended.

Benefits

Dedicated personal consultant

£250 bonus for referrals

Expert payroll service processed twice a week

Qualifications

• Full UK driving license required.
• Enhanced DBS check mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out supervised contact visits with young people and their families.
• Undertake initial assessment work with families.
• Carrying out emergency interventions and support visits to families.
• Holding a case load of families to work closely with.

Skills

Experience of working with young people and their families

Ability to work upon own initiative

Teamwork

Job description

Cardiff Council Children’s services are seeking to recruit a Family Support Worker to join their team. The role is hybrid working with a mixture of home working, visits in the community with service users and office based work. As such, there is a requirement for the successful candidate to be a car driver as you will still be providing face-to-face support to families where applicable. This is a full time position with an initial contract of 3 months with a view to this being extended on a rolling basis and offering a pay rate of £16.62 per hour.

Duties of the role:

• Carrying out supervised contact visits with young people and their families
• Undertake initial assessment work with families
• Carrying out emergency interventions and support visits to families
• Holding a case load of families that you will work closely with alongside the assistance of the Social Worker

Ideal Candidate:

• Experience of working with young people and their families
• Full UK driving license
• Enhanced DBS check
• Be able to work upon own initiative and within a team

Benefits:

• You will receive a dedicated and personal consultant with a vast knowledge of social work
• We are a nationwide supplier of Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities which means we have a wide variety of exclusive roles based all over the country
• We provide frequent updates of new opportunities via text and email
• We have an expert payroll service which is processed twice a week
• At Service Care Solutions we also offer a £250 bonus for referrals! If you think you know someone who would be ideal for this role and they are placed in the job you will then receive £250 at the end of their probationary period.

Application:

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply now. Don’t miss your chance to become a family support worker at Cardiff Council! To apply for this role, or to refer someone else, then please do not hesitate to contact Eilidh at Service Care Solutions on (phone number removed) or (url removed)