This is an exciting home based opportunity working with stroke survivors and their families to support them following a stroke.
Position: S11212 Stroke Support Coordinator (two posts)
We're looking for an innovative, passionate and professional individual with excellent communication and organisational skills to join the Stroke Recovery Service based in the Salford area.
Families First Coach's support families to anticipate future challenges and skills that they have learnt and can utilise around challenges of family life (relapse prevention).
Encouragement is given to apply these new skills in different contexts, inside and outside of the home so that the family can be empowered to feel confident about maintaining the progress they have made.
The role
Families First Coach's are case holding and work relationally and restoratively with families, providing intensive support to bring about change and ensure positive outcomes for children and families on the cusp of statutory social work processes.
To use strengths-based approaches to assess, monitor and review the social care needs of service users and informal carers and find appropriate solutions and make appropriate referrals to external agencies within a preventative, enabling and rehabilitation framework and universal services in accordance with the Care Act eligibility criteria.
To hold an individual caseload of varying degrees of complexity excluding casework that requires the expertise of a qualified professional.
Take responsibility for managing casework with the supervision of a qualified senior practitioner within an outcome focussed approach and within the teams expected performance targets and outcomes, whilst promoting independence and assessing and managing risk.
We are looking for someone who is a Family Support Worker with the following experience:
Experience of working with children and families from a variety of backgrounds and developing and delivering effective provision in either the public or voluntary sector.
Experience of effective partnership or cross sector, multi - agency work.