Children and Young People Practitioner - Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

Description

Temporary Family Support Practitioner Reference no: AFC TCL RQ Pay rate: £12.83 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: LONDONDERRY Enhanced DBS required for this role International Police Check A Family Support Practitioner is required to work closely with children and their families, learning about their strengths and challenges and putting together an assessment of their needs.

You will be a vital member of the team, skilled in providing a high level of professional childcare and social work practice using a wide range of short term (maximum 12 weeks) therapeutic interventions that are outcome focused, evidence based and maximise opportunity for change.

WEISS aims to support families when difficulties arise before they need involvement with statutory services.

WEISS seeks to address issues of concern, achieve sustainable change, promote capability and capacity within families to problem solve difficulties and coordinate person centred, evidence based, early intervention for families with children 0-18 years old within Tier 2 of the Hardiker Model.

WEISS is an outreach service working in families' homes covering all areas of Derry/Londonderry and Strabane. It can include some early evening work to suit working parents.

Work with families experiencing complex challenges and be creative in your approaches in engaging families who may be avoidant and resistant to your efforts.

Provide reports to referrers which critically analyse progress and outcomes achieved and which will inform decision making on children's and their families circumstances going forward.

Provide a high-quality service to children, young people and their families, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven.

Deliver complex and specialist interventions with children, young people or families on a 1:1 basis, group or community setting.

Provide lead case/care planning management, including undertaking assessing, reviewing and managing risks
Take responsibility for day to day resource planning to ensure high quality services are delivered.

Establish and develop effective relationships and channels of communication with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised.

For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates.

If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

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