Family Safeguarding Recovery and Wellbeing Worker

• Take on a caseload as guided by the Somerset County Council Family Safeguarding Team Manager and deliver time-limited, goal focused interventions for parents coming into contact with the Family Safeguarding project, safely and effectively.
• Assess individuals against needs, strengths and risks as they come on to the caseload and provide outreach services, including home visits. Deliver 1-1 key working sessions as well as semi structured and structured groups as a part of their personalised programme of support and activity.
• Provide psycho-social interventions to parents involved in the service drawing on CBT and DBT techniques, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused working, skills and behaviours coaching, parenting skills and boundary setting.
• Actively engage those people introduced in recognised social, therapeutic, creative, practical and community activities.
• Share information within the Open Mental Health Network and develop and implement personal action plans as appropriate, always working within the boundaries of confidentiality and data protection.
• Attend core Open MH locality weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings in order to warmly transfer parents to additional support from clinical colleagues, or from Open MH partners organisations.
• Create a safe, positive environment that supports and enables individuals and groups to participate, achieve and flourish.

Essential

• Substantial mental health and therapeutic experience and associated qualifications.
• A proven, successful track record and substantial experience of multi-disciplinary team working in a mental health or wellbeing environment.
• Experience of working with complexity and using a trauma informed approach.
• Proven experience of working with people with multiple needs (e.g. mental health, domestic abuse, alcohol/drug dependency, long term conditions).
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures relating to children, young people and adults.

Desirable

• A professional counselling Diploma and associated experience.
• Experience of using psycho-social interventions such as Motivational Interviewing or Brief Solution Focused Therapy (not essential as training will be provided).
• Group work facilitation experience and skills.
• Relevant specialist skills, interests or knowledge.
• A knowledge and understanding of the challenges of life in a rural community.

Essential

• A responsive, resourceful and pro-active approach.
• A personal commitment to making a positive difference to the health and wellbeing of beneficiaries.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working partnerships at all levels.
• An understanding of key concepts such as co-production, peer support, inclusion, recovery and wellbeing.
• The ability to plan and provide practical opportunities for different therapeutic individual and group activities.
• Familiarity with vulnerable adult safeguarding principles and procedures. Knowledge and understanding of relevant health, safety, legal and ethical frameworks.
• Ability to function effectively both independently and as a member of the team.
• Ability to engage positively and authentically in group and individual clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Sound general IT skills.