Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Job Summary
We have an exciting opportunity within the All Age Disability service for 1 Family Support Worker, one full time post, 37.5 hours.
This roles involve working directly with children and young people who have complex disabilities such as Autism and Severe Learning Disabilities and who at times present with challenging behaviours. You will support and enable these young people to access community-based activities, work alongside their families within the family home providing advice and support in all areas of family life. Provide specialist support in relation to the child’s disability. Work closely with all professionals involved with the family including the Social Worker, Health professionals and Education. You will be expected to attend all meetings in relation to the young people you support, write reports to support the Social Work assessments, including contributing to parenting assessments.
At times our young people do present with challenging behaviours, full training is provided to support you with this side of the role. Having a good and proven understanding of behaviour and working in a person-centred way is essential.
So if you have a passion for working with and enabling young people with complex disabilities to meet their full potential and work in a team who strive to make a positive impact with all the children, young people and their families they work with, this could be the new job for you.
Main duties of the job
To enable children and young people with complex and severe disabilities to access short breaks within their community.
To offer advice and support to families of children with complex and severe disabilities and work alongside all partner agencies.
To develop, monitor, implement and review the Service Provision Agreement in line with the child/young person’s Care Plan.
To provide a flexible and person-centred service to the young person and their Carers.
To develop and review Risk assessments for young people on your case load.
To assist the Social Worker in the completion of Parenting Assessments, Child in Need Visits, agency referrals.
To deliver training to partner agencies and families in relation to understanding disabilities.
To provide early help intervention and support for families through the Early Bird Course.
To respond to urgent support requests from Social Workers where intervention is focused on maintaining the child/young person remaining at home.
Special Terms – To work flexibly in accordance with the needs of the service which includes evening and weekend working.
About us
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.