Child and Family Support Worker

Main Responsibilities To deliver support, information and guidance to families and professionals, as the key supporting adults around a child, enabling them to provide appropriate support to children and young people. To identify and maintain suitable CYP related information, resources and services and offer guidance and support to Tapping House colleagues to ensure they are equipped to appropriately support, signpost or refer families. To work collaboratively with hospice colleagues to identify children and families in need of support, ensuring appropriate referrals are received, managed effectively, and that thorough assessments of each childs needs are carried out. To hold a caseload, coordinating ongoing care where needed, and appropriately communicating via the Multi Disciplinary Team. To establish goals with individual children and young people and directly provide, or oversee, high quality interventions to CYP who are affected by a patients life limiting illness and subsequent death into bereavement, either face to face or online, via 1 to 1 sessions or on a group work basis, as appropriate. To complete and maintain up to date, comprehensive patient records. To collect data, monitor and evaluate interventions and provide timely and effective reports on outcome measures. To advocate for the needs and rights of children and young people, ensuring their voice is heard and valued. To sit as part of the Hospice Safeguarding Team, supporting CYP and their families, alongside staff to ensure children's needs are advocated for. To support referrals to other services where families require additional or other specialist support. To assist in the continuing development of services for CYP, either individually or in groups, to safely and creatively explore their emotions regarding life limiting illness, loss and bereavement, as part of the wider Compassionate Communities CYP Strategy. To promote and raise awareness of the hospice and Tapping Houses offer to children and young people, their families and wider communities. Be responsible for ensuring own supervision, continuing professional development and mandatory training. Job description Job responsibilities Main Responsibilities To deliver support, information and guidance to families and professionals, as the key supporting adults around a child, enabling them to provide appropriate support to children and young people. To identify and maintain suitable CYP related information, resources and services and offer guidance and support to Tapping House colleagues to ensure they are equipped to appropriately support, signpost or refer families. To work collaboratively with hospice colleagues to identify children and families in need of support, ensuring appropriate referrals are received, managed effectively, and that thorough assessments of each childs needs are carried out. To hold a caseload, coordinating ongoing care where needed, and appropriately communicating via the Multi Disciplinary Team. To establish goals with individual children and young people and directly provide, or oversee, high quality interventions to CYP who are affected by a patients life limiting illness and subsequent death into bereavement, either face to face or online, via 1 to 1 sessions or on a group work basis, as appropriate. To complete and maintain up to date, comprehensive patient records. To collect data, monitor and evaluate interventions and provide timely and effective reports on outcome measures. To advocate for the needs and rights of children and young people, ensuring their voice is heard and valued. To sit as part of the Hospice Safeguarding Team, supporting CYP and their families, alongside staff to ensure children's needs are advocated for. To support referrals to other services where families require additional or other specialist support. To assist in the continuing development of services for CYP, either individually or in groups, to safely and creatively explore their emotions regarding life limiting illness, loss and bereavement, as part of the wider Compassionate Communities CYP Strategy. To promote and raise awareness of the hospice and Tapping Houses offer to children and young people, their families and wider communities. Be responsible for ensuring own supervision, continuing professional development and mandatory training.