Families First Coach

Job Title: Families First Coach
Location: Newham
Job Type: Full time/Contract
Pay Rate: 24 Per Hour

The role:

Families First Coach's are case holding and work relationally and restoratively with families, providing intensive support to bring about change and ensure positive outcomes for children and families on the cusp of statutory social work processes.

Families First Coach's support families to anticipate future challenges and skills that they have learnt and can utilise around challenges of family life (relapse prevention). Encouragement is given to apply these new skills in different contexts, inside and outside of the home so that the family can be empowered to feel confident about maintaining the progress they have made.

The purpose of the Short Breaks Practitioner in the Children and Young People's Disability Service is to carry out high quality and strengths-based short breaks assessments and reviews of social care packages of vulnerable children and young people with severe to profound disabilities and/or complex health needs. The Short Breaks Practitioner works with the child and their family to ensure positive outcomes and enable the child to reach their full potential. The post holder will facilitate and capture the views of the child/young person they work with to inform future service development and any changes in local procedures.

We're a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We're a challenging yet rewarding place for social work practise to flourish and we are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with. We are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.

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