Family Support Practitioner

Salary: £22,500 pro-rata plus £1700 Islands allowance

Perks: Annual leave of 29 days pro rata, plus public holidays, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, up to 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on our career's portal.

Contract/Hours: 28 month Fixed Term Contract, Monday- Friday 9am-5pm (flexibility with working hours is required)

Location: Orkney, Scotland

About Us

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard and we campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

The role

This is an exciting time to join Action for Children, this job role is crucial in the development of the service in Orkney, in partnership with Orkney Island Council. You will be supporting Children and Young People who are impacted by substance and alcohol misuse through early intervention and flexible whole family support within the family homes, education settings and the community. Working with all partner agencies within Orkney (Orkney Health and Care, Education, Police, Health and the Third Sector) the post is integral in providing support to families at an early stage and the service identifies the young persons needs and responds effectively. A child centred approach will be at the heart of the delivery of this support.

We are looking for a Family Support Practitioner to join the service on a full-time basis. You'll be working 37 hours a week, it might be required that you can work some evening and weekend work to meet the needs of the service.

You will make a difference by:

• Workingwithfamiliesaffected by drug and alcohol misuse.
• Delivering complex and specialist interventionswithchildren, youngpeople and their
• Delivering specialist interventions within the school setting.
• Conducting outreach work with young people and their families in their homes and the community.
• Building effective relationships and channels of communication with our partners, such as the children, young people, families, colleagues and external agencies.
• Ensuring all records are maintained and updated in line with the data protection act.

You will need:

• Relevant HNC or experience of working with young people and families to achieve positive outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships at all
• Good IT skills.
• Strong time management
• The ability to work both on your own initiative but also as part of a wider team.

Working here is so much more than a job. It's an investment of time to truly make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children, young people, and families across the UK.

We work together to reach our vision of safe and happy childhoods. Given this and our ongoing commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, we encourage applications from everyone.

We value and celebrate the diversity of those that work with us and as an inclusive workplace we want all our current and future staff to feel able to be themselves in the workplace.

If you're interested in finding out more, click apply and visit our careers portal for more information.

Interviews are provisionally scheduled for week commencing 11th July 2022