Family and Safeguarding Worker

Family and Safeguarding Worker

Location: Gillingham

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Are you passionate about supporting service users and their families? Do you want to make a difference to help those impacted by addiction? An exciting job oppurtunity in Medway has arrived.

Reporting directly to the Service Manager, the post holder will undertake recovery work with families impacted by addiction, addressing and supporting a wide range of support needs. The post holder will also liaise with other recovery workers to support the overall coordination of the individual clients treatment and promote whole family recovery.

The post holder will provide support to management and be required to engage and liaise with the local Safeguarding Lead and work in partnership with carers and family support agencies.

What you will be doing?

General Duties:

• To work flexibly in a variety of settings to create care that meets the needs of the service, service users and their families in line with the recovery agenda
• To hold a small caseload of safeguarding service users
• Develop service user led recovery plans that are comprehensive, person centred and individualised
• Involve service users and their families/advocates in the planning of their care
• Complete accurate, person centred and individualised risk assessments
• Reflect the structure and aims of the substance misuse model of Psychosocial interventions
• Where necessary and appropriate to carry out outreach/home visits to ensure service users' health and wellbeing is safeguarded.

Specific Responsibilities

Therapeutic:

• Facilitate structured key working sessions with individual clients and their family members
• To lead the co-ordination and facilitation of the MPACT programme
• To lead the coordination and facilitation of other Forward programmes and structured interventions as required, such as Relationships Matter
• To lead and co-ordinate the implementation and delivery of any other programmes developed in the future
• Regularly review and where required, update comprehensive assessments, recovery plans and risk assessments
• Provide person centred care that reflects the choices of service users in a safe environment that maintains their dignity and wellbeing
• Provide an environment that is free from abuse or neglect, observing agreed Safeguarding practices
• Identifying and promoting appropriate opportunities for service users to engage with their community (e.g Training and Education, Employment, Volunteering etc)

Safeguarding:

• To work alongside team leaders and the service manager to carry out safeguarding audits and to ensure actions are completed
• Support service manager to review, amend and maintain safeguarding
• processes at the service
• To support service manager to keep the team up to date with new safeguarding developments
• To support team leaders and service manager with new staff inductions - safeguarding
• To produce monthly safeguarding performance report for the service

Partnership Working:

• Work closely with the Family and Young People (YP) department to deliver high quality support to clients and family members/CSOs.
• To work closely with other Forward staff, communicating regularly and effectively to ensure clients and family members/CSOs received a holistic package of care and support.
• Actively network with external organisations, developing close referral and signposting relationships with specialist services, to enhance the package of care and support for the people we work with.
• Attend events as required to raise the profile of the organisation and highlight the family work we do.
• Work closely with MASH team and to ensure service responds to MASH requests as per contractual requirements

Outcome Monitoring, Evaluation and Continuous Improvement:

• Support the organisation to evidence and continuously improve the effectiveness of its family related work through:
• The accurate reporting of client and programme outcomes on the organisation's case and client management systems e.g. Illy
• Providing reports on all aspects of service delivery as required.
• Attending Designated Safeguarding Lead Forums.
• Engaging with and supporting family work audits carried out by the Family and YP department.
• Support the Family and YP department to develop new interventions/programmes.
• Proactively gather feedback from the people who use our services and use that feedback to continuously improve programmes and interventions.
• Participate in coproduction and consultation events as required.
• Meet targets as agreed with your line manager and actively participate in performance reviews.
• Engage in regular one to one line management reviews and team meetings
• Carry out day to day tasks in accordance with stated policies, procedures and regulations to assist the service achieve its compliance obligations

What are we looking for?

• Knowledge of local authority safeguarding pathways and framework, for both children and adults
• Experience in recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns, working within organisational safeguarding policies.
• Experience working with a range of service users with complex needs and within a 'whole family' approach
• Experience in working collaboratively with partner agencies in order to promote recovery, reduce stigma around substance misuse and reduce harm.
• Good knowledge of substance misuse treatment pathways, including psychosocial and clinical treatment.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.