22 048 Family Support Services

We are looking for experienced children’s nurses qualified under the Nursing Midwifery Council who can fulfil the direct nursing needs of children and young people with complex medical needs within a community setting. Nurses must be skilled enough to deliver care which meets the clinical needs of the child or young person within a community setting.

Highly skilled carer workers must be skilled to carry out a programme of activities with disabled children and young people who have complex needs in their homes and the community required to achieve outcomes listed on the child’s plan. For example, carer workers may need to support the development of disabled children and young people’s independent living skills, travel training and provide them with high quality personal care.

We are looking for experienced Support Workers for disabled children and young people who are skilled to carry out a programme of activities with disabled children and young people in their homes and the community required to achieve outcomes listed on the child’s plan. For example, Support Workers may need to support the development of disabled children and young people’s independent living skills, travel training and provide them with high quality personal care. Support Workers may also need to provide practical support to families in the home.

We are looking for a Positive Behaviour Support Service (PBSS) that works to support behaviour change and improved quality of life for people with autism and/or learning disabilities who engage in challenging behaviour. Workers would include for example Board Certified Behaviour Analysts, Assistant Behaviour Analysts, specially trained Behaviour Practitioners and skilled support workers.

We are looking for Care Workers, Skilled Support Workers and Therapeutic Input to support:

• Parental Mental Health – regular support from care workers / support workers – weekdays and or weekends usually to provide practical support with day to day tasks causing challenge such as taking children out to activities, managing morning / evening routines. Usually time slots outside school hours.
• Child Mental Health – regular support/ family respite. Supporting young people with mental health concerns who don’t meet CAMHS intervention criteria, supporting families in managing behaviours / providing respite from challenging behaviours. May require waking nights and input from Therapeutic practitioners. Combination of support and therapeutic input. May require liaising and working with health / school. Usually time slots evenings and nights – daytime provision to support return to education may also be needed.

We are looking for Skilled Support Workers and Therapeutic Input to support:

• Edge of Care – Young People - regular support and or mentoring input / family guidance and input with strategies and behaviours. Supporting young people with challenging behaviours which may involve drugs, alcohol, gangs, missing from home incidents and criminal / sexual exploitation. Mentoring and providing therapeutic input to challenge these behaviours. Building relationships and guidance towards positive activities. Increasing engagement in sustainable, positive activities to build a base for long term stability and independence. Rebuilding family relationships, de-escalation of high stress, high emotion environments, developing parents’ capacity to safeguard and parent effectively. Input usually takes place daytime – if young person is school refusing / late afternoon – late night and waking nights, weekdays and weekends. May require liaising and working with school / youth justice / @ct and other agencies working with young person.
• Edge of Care – Adoption Support - regular support and or mentoring input / family guidance and input with strategies and behaviours / respite and support to stabilise placement. Supporting young people with challenging behaviours which have developed due to previous childhood trauma. Supporting with strategies to deal with dis-regulation and attachment related behaviours. Mentoring and providing therapeutic input and liaising with carers, school and other agencies working with young people to promote consistent strategies. Input usually takes place daytime – if young person is school refusing / before or after school / overnight if respite is needed.
• Edge of Care – Family Support – regular support and safeguarding for children where families are at risk of children going into care. Family guidance on behaviour, care and routines needed to ensure a safe, nurturing environment and positive relationships. Often supporting families with very young / new born babies or multiple young children. Adults may have learning difficulties, mental health issues or challenges where directed input needs to be delivered in short chunks with regular repetition to meet their processing needs. Staff will need to make daily observations and assessments and provide regular feedback in partnership with other agencies to ensure the well being of children.
• Edge of Care – Step Down - regular support and or mentoring input / family guidance and input with strategies and behaviours. Supporting young people who have previously exhibited challenging behaviours / Tier 4 mental health stepdown. Mentoring and providing therapeutic input to support challenges of stepdown. Building relationships and guidance towards positive activities. Increasing engagement in sustainable, positive activities to build a base for long term stability and independence. Rebuilding family relationships, developing parents’ capacity to safeguard and parent effectively, providing reassurance. Input may initially be 24/7 and a staffing ratio of 2:1 for Tier 4 step downs; Care step downs are likely to be outside school hours or during the day if the young person has not yet returned to education.

We are looking for a range of family assessments and therapeutic services such as sibling assessments, specialist adoption assessments, family functioning, parenting capacity and attachment work. This may be within the pre proceedings process to prevent separation and help identify attachment, parenting styles or emotional wellbeing and mental health functioning to support a family in maintaining care. This will also include consideration of assessment and support within the court process or long-term care.

We are looking for Skilled Support Workers and Therapeutic Input to support:

• Cared for Children – Placement Stability and step-down - regular support and placement respite – weekdays or weekends to provide support with / respite from challenging behaviours and stabilise placement. Supporting young people with challenging behaviours which may involve drugs, alcohol, gangs, missing from placement incidents and criminal / sexual exploitation. Mentoring and providing therapeutic input to challenge these behaviours. Building relationships and guidance towards positive activities. Increasing engagement in sustainable, positive activities to build a base for long term stability and independence. Working with young person’s family and friends to maintain positive contact and support a pathway to reunification with family / family network; transporting and retrieving young person from contact visits and de-escalating potential missing from home opportunities. Input may take place daytime – if young person is school refusing / late afternoon – late night and waking nights, weekdays and weekends. May require liaising and working with school / youth justice / @ct and other agencies working with young person.