Disabled Childrens Family Worker

Job description

About the Service and Team This is an exciting opportunity to join the Disabled Children & Therapy Service (DC&TS) and to work in a specialist, multi-disciplinary team which supports disabled children, young people and their families. Are you enthusiastic about supporting disabled children, young people and their families? Do you enjoy a career where two days are never the same? Do you excel at problem solving? Disabled Children’s Family Workers support and coordinate other services to ensure disabled children, young people and their families have what they need. They are advocates on behalf for the children they work with, they work alongside social workers and work with children and families and sometimes provide immediate support at times of family emergency. They regularly review of the children’s needs in a child support plan. Disabled Children’s Family Workers are passionate and committed to working with disabled children and young people aged 0 to 18 years and their parents/carers. Disabled Children’s Family Workers are supported to attend specific training so that they can use a range of evidence-based approaches and intervention skills such as, Positive behaviour Support,...