To provide a high quality, child focused and safe contact service for
children and their families / carers.
To set up and provide supervised contact between children and families/
carers maintaining records of interactions, child protection concerns and
health and safety issues.
To promote, encourage and enable parents in practising safe and effective
parenting skills and to support families in maintaining, or developing their
quality of their contact. Where appropriate, to help families to develop
independent contact within the community.
To provide a range of support in contact to children in need of protection or
support and their carers, ensuring a provision of services that protect,
support, and enable children to maximise their potential and to enhance
their identity.
To ensure that plans for children and their families consist of clear goals
and are being effectively implemented in accordance with standards and
protocols. To ensure that individual outcomes identified are achieved.
To assist children and families /carers in the completion of life story work.
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To participate in the development of new initiatives and work within the
centre in partnership with the management team.
To ensure the environment where you are working is a safe, warm,
containing, and accepting one