Family Support Worker TCES Create in the Community Barking

Salary: £27,284 – £30,592 per annum

Location: TCES Create in the Community & TCES Create Primary

Contract: Permanent, Term time only

We are seeking an experienced Family Support Worker to undertake direct and intensive work with families of our young pupils with neurodiverse identities. By undertaking this work as part of our innovative FaST programme (Families and School Together) you will enable positive changes and improve educational and wellbeing outcomes for young people with the most complex of needs.

As a TCES Family Support Worker (FSW), you will be providing direct input to a managed caseload of pupils with ASC & SEMH and their families. Working within the setting, the community and pupils’ homes, you’ll work intensively with families to enable positive change,and improve educational and wellbeing outcomes for children with the most complex needs.

The broad range of areas in which you will support young people and their families will include maintaining physical health, meeting emotional needs, keeping children safe, attendance and engagement, connecting with social support networks, accessing education and learning, maintaining boundaries, and reducing challenging behaviour, managing family routines, maintaining home and parental resilience, and addressing contextual risks. You’ll also conduct family assessments for pupils on our assessment programme and those open to our targeted and intensive FAST offer.

The Complete Education Solution (TCES)

TCES is an independent provider of specialist education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education.

TCES pupils learn at one of our four schools or within our Home Learning service; Create Learning and Create Learning Primary support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with highly differentiated and personalised holistic education programmes developed for each pupil focusing on developmental milestones. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main schools.

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

• Be a positive role model.
• High levels of emotional intelligence and resilience.
• Demonstrable success in supporting highly complex and high-risk children with neurodiverse identities, including children with SEMH/ASC, and their families and wider social circle, with understanding of potential implications for communication, learning and behaviour.
• Experience in conducting comprehensive strengths-based assessments of young people and their families.
• Hold NVQ Level 3 or above in Family Support, Social Work, Youth Work or a related field.

In return we offer :

• Competitive salary and terms and conditions, including consistent monthly pay.
• An opportunity to make a real difference and join a leading provider of specialist education, directly contributing towards positive outcomes for pupils with SEMH and ASC.
• Excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development, including education qualifications at all levels (QTS / QTLS / NPQs) and options to take progressive Ofqual registered Level 3 – 5 qualifications in Therapeutic Education.
• Comprehensive induction process, including all pupil-facing staff supported in receiving the Level 3 Award in Therapeutic Education and Group Process.
• Regular half termly staff wellbeing days.
• A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an exclusive rewards platform.

Closing date 21 April 2024

To apply

For more information contact recruitment@tces.org.uk

TCES is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.

The Complete Education Solution (TCES) is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education. We are committed to achieving the best outcome for each pupil and their family through access to excellent education and family support.

TCES Create in the Community runs parallel to our independent day schools. Here education focuses on the developmental milestones and a holistic curriculum. Every pupil goes through a different journey with Create in the Community, with highly differentiated and personalised education programmes developed for each pupil who need intensive support as part of our ‘step down’ mode.

On joining us, pupils will have already – on average – experienced three permanent exclusions, been out of full-time education for up to 18 months and are recognised to be substantially at risk of being unemployed, developing severe mental health problems and involvement with the criminal justice system later in life. Between 3 and 5 years after leaving a TCES school or service, 90% of our students are in education, training or employment.