Family Support Worker; Targeted Early Advisory Service

About this job

TEHAS Family Support Workers screen referrals into the Targeted Early Help service to assess need and risk in families within a three working-day timescale using the LBBD Multi-Agency Threshold of Need document to ensure that children and families receive the appropriate level of support without delay. They provide telephone consultation, timely advice and guidance to partners and families to help families build capacity, resilience, and independence, so that they can have the best start or are able to overcome issues before they become so serious that specialist or statutory services are needed.

Family support workers recommend outcome based, child focussed interventions for the Locality teams informed by the screening process, to meet families’ assessed needs and contribute to improving outcomes for children ( 0-19 years) and families within Barking and Dagenham, ensuring children’s safeguarding and welfare is at the heart of all screening completed. in Barking and Dagenham. TEHAS Family Support Workers will deliver a high-quality service in line with the practice standards and the CARES Framework.

• Screen referrals into the Targeted Early Help service to assess need and risk in families within a three working-day timescale using the LBBD Multi-Agency Threshold of Need document.
• Ensure that children and families receive the appropriate level of support without delay.
• Provide telephone consultation, timely advice and guidance to partners and families to help families build capacity, resilience, and independence.
• Support families to have the best start or to overcome issues before they become serious enough to require specialist or statutory services.
• Recommend outcome-based, child-focused interventions for Locality teams informed by the screening process to meet assessed needs and contribute to improving outcomes for children (0-19 years) and families within Barking and Dagenham, with safeguarding and welfare at the heart of all screening.
• Deliver a high-quality service in line with practice standards and the CARES Framework.

• TEHAS are looking for someone who is dynamic, hardworking and has experience providing support to different stakeholders within a social care setting.
• Essential experience using the multi-agency threshold document.
• The ability to work under pressure, challenge decisions and work as part of a team under tight timescales.
• Ability to record data accurately and familiarity with using different IT recording systems.
• Desire for a new and challenging role.

• In TEHAS we screen roughly 200 referrals a month and have tight timescales in which we work. This does not include other tasks such as phone consultation, relational phone and face to face work. We work in a diverse workforce with families from different backgrounds. If you would like to discuss the post please contact the Team Manager, Emma Mehegan at k

Targeted Early Help is a dynamic multi-agency service which is currently developing in line with Best Chance Hub model of working. The borough is a fast growing and developing who are keen to recruit the right people for the right posts.