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Salary: £25,000 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2026, Part-time- 30 hours per week
* 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
* Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
* Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
* Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
* We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer
About the Service
Reflect offers support to women whose children are in foster care or have been adopted.
It aims to help them as their circumstances change and supports them in positive future choices. Each women's journey is unique and with support and understanding they can successfully renegotiate their role at different stages of that journey.
The service offers support by:
* Building emotional resilience
* Improving confidence and self-esteem
* Developing social networks
* Support to attend LAC reviews
* Support to attend health appointments
* Keeping themselves safe
* Accessing community facilities and resources
* Supporting contact visits
* Support to attend court proceedings and legal meetings.
About the role
As a Family Support Practitioner, you'll provide a wide range of services across Carmarthenshire, which enables positive outcomes to be achieved.
This will be achieved in line with organisational policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
How you'll create brighter futures
* Deliver a complex and specialist interventions to women whose children have been fostered or adopted on a 1:1 basis.
* Provide care planning management, including undertaking assessing, reviewing and managing risks (Carmarthenshire Region)
* Attending and participating at relevant multi agency meetings, providing a lead role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review
* Take responsibility for day-to-day resource planning to ensure high quality services are delivered.
* Establish and developing effective relationships and channels of communication with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies
Let's talk about you
* Willing to travel across region (Carmarthenshire)
* Experience of chairing, supporting and contributing to service planning meetings.
* Experience of the development and practice of community working, including influencing involvement
* Ability to lead and develop service implementation plan
* Working in collaboration to achieve changewithin your immediate team and wider multi agency partnerships
* Experience of collating and producing reports, capturing and progressing the relevant information for a desired outcome
* UK driving license with access to transport, for the purposes of transportation of service users to appointments and meetings
Good to know
For more information about our Family Support Practitioner role, please review our full job description by clickinghere.
If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones at quoting reference 11135 and we'll be happy to give you any support you require.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
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