Senior Family Support Worker

Hertfordshires Family Centre Service is made up of the Public Health Nursing Service (Health Visitors and School Nurses) and the Family Support Service. Our purpose is to support children and families to have the best start in life develop well and thrive.
We provide families with children aged up to 5 years with a wide range of services information and support on key areas relating to family life.

As a Senior Family Support Practitioner you will provide support to the Family Support Lead and Locality Manager to ensure an integrated approach to supporting families with a particular focus on the more vulnerable.

The Role
Providing day to day line management of the FS team including supervision meetings capacity planning management of resources monitoring of sickness absence and holiday requests.
Ensuring an integrated approach to supporting families with a particular focus on the more vulnerable.
Information sharing with key partners and upholding multi-agency working.
Overseeing effective use of all assessment and evaluation tools to enhance the service offer provided to families ensuring the familys needs remain central to all plans.
Identifying and planning activities to encourage the engagement of parents and children.
Holding a small caseload of the most complex families.
Working towards and achieving the agreed internal and external Key Performance Indicators and objectives to ensure a high level of service is provided at all times.

Requirements
Level 4 or above in a recognised professional qualification in health education childcare social care or equivalent.
Experience of working in a family support capacity including developing and delivering a range of support to children and families.
Experience of supervising case management and developing staff.
Demonstrable experience of sound Safeguarding practices procedures and legislation; including Early Help.
Experience of multi-agency working.
You will require an enhanced DBS check. Car driver with own car essential.


At One YMCA we are an inclusive organisation and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent skills and potential. We do not discriminate on the basis of Age Disability Gender Reassignment Marriage/Civil Partnership Pregnancy/Maternity Race Religion/Belief Sex and/or Sexual Orientation. We encourage applications from all backgrounds communities and industries and are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills experiences and abilities.


This is a Full Time role.
Hours per week: 37.5
Working Pattern: mon- fri 9 - 5

One YMCA and its subsidiaries the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. We are over half way through an exciting new strategy launched in the first hour of the new decade via email where all staff and volunteers were invited to put themselves forward to apply and attend an intensive three-day Kickstarter Event.

By the end of these three days there was a brilliantly multi-faceted set of themes and ideas which formed the starting point for the rest of the Mission 25 process to build on. The aim of Mission 25 is to give every staff member and volunteer the opportunity to play their part in shaping the strategy to do more and better together so that we double our impact by 2025. We deliver a vast array of services across Herts Beds and Bucks that reach over 135000 individuals annually.

These include:

• Provision of over 700 units of accommodation for homeless people
• Move on accommodation for individuals moving onto independent living
• Housing and practical/emotional support for young asylum seekers
• Community HUBs hosting a range of activities and meeting space hire
• Childcare provision in Hertfordshire
• Family support through a network of childrens and family centres covering Hertfordshire and Bedford
• Therapeutic and non-therapeutic support for male and female victims of domestic abuse and their children
• Independent sexual violence services across Bedfordshire Luton and Hertfordshire
• Domestic abuse perpetrator reform programmes across Bedfordshire
• Youth services offering emotional wellbeing support and youth club opportunities for 11-19 year olds alongside our National Airplay programme funded by the RAF Benevolent Fund
• A community gym where everyone can enjoy the benefits of physical exercise Our values remain at the forefront of how we operate as a charity and it is important to us that all staff and volunteers can fully buy in to our ethos.