Vacancies

Vacancy Information

Vacancy Title:	Family Assessment Worker (bank)
Salary:
Closing Date:	1st July 2015

Job ref: BANKFAW

As we approach our 60th birthday at Browning House, we are looking to strengthen our services for safeguarding children. Browning House works to safeguard and protect the well-being of children by assessing, assisting and empowering their parents. We work to balance the needs of the parents with the need for child protection within the Government’s ‘Every Child Matters’ framework.

Browning House has four core values which we expect all staff to adhere to:

To ensure a child’s safety and protection from all forms of abuse and exploitation
To value, respect and respond to all forms of communication
To respect and value the diversity of experience which comes from peoples race, culture, faith and personal experience
To work creatively, professionally and collaboratively to act in the interests of children

We are looking to recruit bank staff for Family Assessment Worker positions with experience of working with families and children, observing and recording family interactions and working with individuals/parents with mental health difficulties, perpetrators of domestic violence, drug/alcohol addictions and learning difficulties/disabilities.

The person appointed will work as an integral member of the staff team; they will provide support and supervision of parents, on-going observation and accurate record-keeping in order to contribute fully to the assessment process. They will be a self-motivated team player with the ability to work on their own initiative, initiate ideas and engage and work effectively and positively with families and children to achieve positive outcomes.

Closing deadline

There is no closing deadline for these bank staff positions as recruitment is ongoing. However we may close the vacancy should we receive a suitable volume of applications.

Details and information:

download Job Description (pdf, 13kb)
download Person Specification (pdf, 17kb)
download Application form (pdf, 34kb) (word, 2.49mb)

Please e-mail your application form to mmckenzie@browninghouse.org.uk or post your application to 126 Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 4DP. Please note that we do not accept CVs as an application for this position.