Job Description
The purpose of the Family Link Worker post is to provide a range of targeted supports to families (carers), children and young people that address home based barriers to learning, support transitions, and promote resilience, wellbeing and positive engagement with school, family and community based learning opportunities. Barriers include but are not exclusive to family (carer) physical and mental health, parenting skills, family (carer) circumstances, school attendance.
You will work in partnership with schools and early learning centres, relevant professionals, and community partners to effect positive outcomes and signpost to relevant support resources. You will receive and manage referrals, work to establish trusting and empowering relationships with families (carers), children, and young people; you will assess need. You will plan, deliver, and evaluate family, individual and small group work programmes to meet identified priorities for those on your case load. You will deliver face to face support interventions including but not exclusive to relational family work, nurture and restorative interventions, Emotions Coaching, Circle of Friends and Seasons for Growth.
Requirements
To work relationally and in partnership to deliver targeted supports that address home based barriers to learning, support transitions, and promote resilience, wellbeing and positive engagement with school, family and community based learning opportunities
To work in partnership to assess the needs of families (carers), children and young people who are part of your caseload
To develop, deliver and evaluate programmes of need based support for the families (carers), children and young people on your caseload
The Individual
1. Experience of working relationally with families, children and young people
2. Experience of work within an educational or community setting
3. Experience of needs assessment
4. 4 SQA National 4s, or Standard Grade Level 3 or above, or equivalent. Must include English and Maths
5. Self-confident and self-motivated
6. Able to demonstrate a commitment to implementing equality of opportunity in all areas of work
7. Ability to work on own initiative and respond appropriately within sensitive work environments
8. Effective communication skills, oral and written
9. Effective organisational, information recording and collation and time management skills
10. Ability to work as part of a team, including contributing to service development
11. Display ability and commitment to training and subsequent staff development as required
12. A working knowledge of Word, Outlook, Excel
13. Ability to work relationally with a range of partners
14. Ability to work with challenging and/or vulnerable families, children and young people
15. Ability to respond flexibly and with resilience to emotionally demanding situations
16. Knowledge of child development and childcare
17. Ability to participate in /contribute to assessment and planning
18. Ability to plan, facilitate, lead and evaluate activities
19. Ability to work directly with small groups or on a one to one basis
20. Commitment to undertake training / staff development as relevant to the post
21. You will be expected to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Moray to meet the operational requirements of the Service. Due to the rural nature of Moray this is normally undertaken by use of a car
22. Effective communication, presentation and negotiation skills
23. Capacity to make balanced decisions under pressure and to manage change
24. Capacity to form productive working relationships with colleagues, families, children and young people
25. Willingness to accept direction/ delegation
26. Appreciation, acceptance of and a commitment to the importance of confidentiality in line with policies and procedures
27. Confident to deliver 1:1 and small group work in a professional manner
28. Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs and demands of the service
29. Ability to work in a range of settings from homes/schools/ community buildings to detached work
30. Ability to work peripatetically and virtually
Temporary appointment, initially until 27 June
Closing Date: 08 November
Starting Salary: £27,.75 (pro rata)
£14.55 per hour
36.25 hours per week (term time only)
Applicants should note that the post will be worked between the 5 schools in the Lossiemouth ASG.
For further information contact: St Gerardine Primary, tel ; email