Family Support Worker - Wirral, United Kingdom - CWP

CWP

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Wirral, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Main area

Family Support worker
Grade

Band 3

Contract
Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time

37.5 hours per week (Any 5 days out of 7)
Job ref
373-AAD0053

Site

Millennium Centre
Town

Leasowe, Wirral

Salary
£21,730 - £23,177 per annum pro rata

Salary period
Yearly

Closing
31/03/2023 00:59

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) supports thousands of vulnerable people across Cheshire and Merseyside.

We provide physical, mental health and learning disability services to a total population of around one million people.

Situated near two thriving cities in Liverpool and Manchester, CWP operates from 66 sites across Cheshire and Merseyside, including Wirral, Chester, Winsford, Crewe, Macclesfield, Sefton and Trafford.

We have been recognised by the Health Service Journal as one of the top places to work in the health service for the last two years running and committed to delivering person centred care.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated CWP as 'Good' overall, 'better' for treatments and 'Outstanding' for care.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or you are looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

Job overview:

The Family Support Team is part of the All Age Disabilities service and we work with Children aged 0 to 18 who have complex disabilities and their families.

We are a team of 12 family support workers, managed by a Family Support Team manager, working alongside our Social work team.

We firmly believe that all young people regardless of their disability have the right to be part of their community, have fun and reach their full potential.

Our aim is to enable are young people to reach their full potential, supporting them in all aspects of their lives with are main aim to enable the young people to remain living at home.

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 on all the children, young people and their families they work with, this could be the new job for you.

Are you a Clinical Support Worker (CSW), currently work for a local authority or a charity/private provider working with children or adults with disabilities and ASC, who would like to transfer your knowledge, skills and experience.

If so, we would like to hear from you.

The part time posts are 20 hours a week over 5 days to be negotiated with your line manager.

Main duties of the job:

These 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 Worker 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.

You will spend time in the community enabling the young person to access activities which they enjoy.

You will be working alongside families to support in all aspects of parenting a child with a disability, working alongside all other professionals involved with that family.

Working for our organisation:

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.

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