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Job description

Barnardo's Early Intervention Family Support Service is recruiting for a Project Worker 2 post in the Northern Health & Social Care Trust area. The service is delivered in partnership with the SPPG. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team of family support practitioners who offer direct home visiting support to families and children (aged 8-13 years). The service is flexible and responsive to the needs of children and families experiencing a range of difficulties. We use a strengths-based approach to support families and children to achieve better outcomes. Needs may relate to health, social or educational issues and the challenges experienced by families referred to the service are diverse. Behaviour. School. Emotional wellbeing. Illness/Bereavement.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of 10 families at any one time and provide medium term intervention for each of these families for between 6-7 months.
• Provide home based therapeutic and practical support to families allocated to them.
• Work in partnership with children and their family.
• Apply strength-based methods of work to support and evaluate work with children and families.
• Work may involve individual work with children or parents or family group work or co-working depending on the family’s needs and expressed wishes.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Degree or Diploma in Social Work or a relevant 3rd level qualification, for example psychology degree or professional qualification in teaching or community youth work.
• Direct experience of working with children and families.
• Experience of delivering interventions to parents.
• Hold a full UK driving licence, business insurance and access to a car for work purposes (this criteria will be waived for candidates with a disability who can demonstrate alternative means of meeting the mobility requirements of the post).