Specialist family support worker (role scope) – CSE and Sexual Health
Early Help and Prevention
Direct work with families
The post holder will hold a caseload where there is a significant factor in the family’s identified needs relating to CSE or sexual health. This work is likely to be more complex and challenging than the family work held by family support worker colleagues.
There may be occasions were joint home visits are undertaken to support the lead professional with specific interventions.
Information, advice and guidance
This role is the ‘go to’ place for the provision of information, advice and guidance (IAG) regarding CSE or sexual health issues.
This centres on having a robust knowledge of resources and professional contacts to ‘sign-post’ EHP colleagues and the wider workforce. As part of this you would be able to support practitioners to explore vulnerability factors and potential indicators of CSE, to use relevant tools and resources and to understand how and when to engage with relevant pathways.
In addition, the post holder will develop a robust professional network to ‘sign-post’ EHP colleagues and the wider workforce to when taking forward work with families. As part of this the post holder will be able to support practitioners to explore issues with families, identifying interventions and tools to use alongside their and own profession knowledge.
The post holder will need to raise their profile across the City to develop a professional network, which could be done through some ‘quick wins’ at network meetings (i.e. issuing ‘Top Tips’).
Team Around the Worker input
Developing professional relationships with key service providers across the city to ensure that there is a two-way understanding of both the Early Help and Prevention Service and theirs. This will support both general inter agency discussions and more robust joint working moving forward. This could be through semi-formal planned consultations or discussions, group advice sessions or through establishing ‘Topic Champions’.
Building on the existing delivery of relevant training for EHP colleagues and the wider workforce through workshops for front-line practitioners.
Recording of case specific advice given and actions agreed within EHP team on relevant family files.
Strategy input
Finding appropriate opportunities to link with relevant strategy working groups and plans.
Key relationships
- Barnardo’s U-Turn
- Solent Sexual Health Services
- School Nursing