Family Safeguarding and Recovery Worker - Yeovil, United Kingdom - The Balsam Centre

Description

Family Safeguarding Recovery and Wellbeing Worker

Salary:
Starting at £26,500 dependent on experience and qualifications


Hours:
Full or Part time hours to be agreed

The post-holder will be based in Children's Services and work as part of a co-located multi-disciplinary team of children's social workers, domestic abuse and substance misuse specialists, to safeguard and reduce risks to children and their families.

They will be responsible for individual and group work with parents whose behaviours mean their families are at risk of harm.

They will ensure that parents who come into the Family Safeguarding programme, and have a mental health condition, are provided with holistic, strengths based support, focusing on the individual needs of the parent and family, linking with wider Open Mental Health offer of support as required.

This link will be enabled through the Open Mental Health locality multi-disciplinary team operating model, so that clinical support from Somerset Foundation Trust can be stepped up as and when needed.

This support will, in turn, form part of the whole multi-disciplinary support plan for the family.

As directed by the Family Safeguarding Team Manager, the Open Mental Health Recovery and Wellbeing Worker will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary team within the South Somerset Family Safeguarding Team.

They will deliver comprehensive interventions, underpinned by a mixed skill set, including CBT techniques, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused working, skills and behaviours coaching, parenting skills and boundary setting.

The Main Responsibilities of the Post Holder are to:

• Take on a caseload as guided by the Somerset County Council Family Safeguarding Team Manager and develop and run personalised programmes of activity for parents coming into contact with the Family Safeguarding project, safely and effectively.
• Assess individuals against needs, strengths and risks as they come on to the caseload and provide outreach services, including home visits. Deliver 11 key working sessions as well as semi structured and structured groups as a part of their personalised programme of support and activity.
• Provide psychosocial interventions to parents involved in the service drawing on CBT techniques, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused working, skills and behaviours coaching, parenting skills and boundary setting.
• Actively engage those people introduced in recognised social, therapeutic, creative, practical and community activities.
• Share information within the Open Mental Health Network and develop and implement personal action plans as appropriate, always working within the boundaries of confidentiality and data protection.
• Attend core Open MH locality weekly multidisciplinary team meetings in order to 'warmly transfer' parents to additional support from clinical colleagues, or from Open MH partners organisations.
• Create a safe, positive environment that supports and enables individuals and groups to participate, achieve and flourish.
• Build relationships of trust with individuals and groups that maintain appropriate boundaries.
• Accurately record individual, group and session notes, including on Somerset County Council's systems. Collect, collate and input information for monitoring and evaluation purposes in line with the requirements of the post, including inputting to purpose built databases and/or systems.
• Attend and actively participate in care planning and review meetings and attending child protection conferences/other case conferences or Family Courts, as required and identified by the Family Safeguarding Team Manager
• Escalate any clinical risk to Somerset Foundation Trust in line with agreed protocols
• Follow all Somerset Council Family Safeguarding protocols, including escalation of any altered risk to the family.
• Engage in regular clinical and case management, individual and group supervision with The Family Safeguarding Team.
• Engage in coproduction with Open Mental Health coproduction manager to learn, develop and evolve the service and offer.
• Keep abreast of mental health, wellbeing and related and relevant therapeutic matters, initiatives and policy at local and national level. Be responsible for own CPD.
• By agreement and negotiation with relevant parties (as necessary) use the resources of the community, natural, physical and human, to further the development of recovery and wellbeing activities.
• Work constructively and creatively with other team members and partners to meet the agreed targets and outcomes of Open Mental Health and of Family Safeguarding.
• Take on any other duties which may reasonably be requested to further the aims of Open Mental Health or The Balsam Centre.

Salary:
Up to £26,500.00 per year


COVID-19 considerations:
We operate a Covid secure premises


Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Experience:

- mental health and therapeutic: 2 years (required)
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