Family Practitioner

We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Lewisham to assist with the appointment of a Family Practitioner on a 3month contract likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: 19.95 26.05 per hour

Responsibilities:

• To effectively engage families and to work directly with them on multiple issues including parenting and family functioning employment school attendance mental ill health learning difficulties domestic abuse drug and alcohol abuse homelessness bereavement risk of going missing and child sexual exploitation and/or involvement in gangs criminal and antisocial behaviour.
• Providing intensive support to vulnerable children/young people and their families through a family centred approach facilitating the change needed in families to improve parenting capacity and outcomes for children.
• To maximise the involvement of children young people and families in decision that after them and to ensure that the voices of children young people and families are represented in their assessments and plans and in service design review and delivery.
• Assess parenting skills and help parents/carers to build physical and emotional caring abilities by providing advice and practical support with their parenting role including use of positive activities to promote social inclusion and techniques to avoid conflict and manage challenging behaviour.
• Undertaking onetoone direct work and mediation work with children/young people and their families in a crisis sometimes in challenging and volatile situations working closely alongside colleagues from across Children Social Care and other key partner agencies to deliver best practice through an integrated response.

Qualifications:

• Professional qualification or relevant experience in a social work/health/or related childrens services area.
• Training and/or qualifications in social care youth work social work or equivalent to national standards minimum NVQ 3

Experience:

• Significant experience of providing support to vulnerable children/young people and their families within a targeted early help setting on a range of complex issues including where there are safeguarding concerns utilising a range of strategies to engender positive change.
• Experience of developing and maintaining relationships across services and supporting them to work together to achieve coordinated responses to needs and achieve best outcomes for children and families.
  Experience of caseload management and prioritising and planning support.
• Experience of working in culturally diverse communities
• Experience of addressing equal opportunities issues.
• Experience of using different intervention models to support parenting.
• Experience of using practice models and structured assessments to assess risk needs and action plan with families and individuals including Early Help Assessments and SMART family plans.

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K
• This role requires an basic DBS

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary though assignments can be and often are extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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