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Family Support Worker - Home Visiting, Dublin
Client: Childhood Development Initiative
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 815fb0189e66
Job Views: 36
Posted: 21.01.2025
Expiry Date: 07.03.2025
Job Description:
Family Support Worker - Home Visiting
The role will be to support and empower parents in Tallaght by conducting regular home visits.
Home Visiting Parent Carer Facilitator Responsibilities:
* Conduct a programme of home visiting with parents from pregnancy onwards, implementing the Preparing for Life model where appropriate.
* Deliver Preparing for Life from pregnancy to school age, ensuring fidelity to its design and upholding established quality standards.
* Actively engage with parents to build their parental capacity through provision of home visits and one-to-one, non-judgemental, confidential support.
* Work collaboratively with parents to identify their specific needs and make referrals as appropriate.
* Support parents/children to access appointments with specialist services as appropriate and accompany parents/children at these appointments where necessary.
* Engage with parents using a strengths-based approach, encouraging proactive parenting.
* Implement and support parents’ participation in a range of parental engagement initiatives including workshops, coffee mornings, parent and toddler groups, family events, and parent support programmes.
* Deliver evidence-based and evidence-informed parent programmes to parents in community settings, e.g., Infant massage.
* Participate in team meetings, learning and development meetings, Communities of Practice, ongoing training and supervision, and proactively identify training relevant to the role, sharing learning from any training or events attended on behalf of CDI.
* Support the monitoring and evaluation of the Parent Carer Facilitator role, Preparing for Life model, and associated activities.
* Actively engage in data collection and documentation to support case planning with families.
* Ensure accurate and confidential case notes are maintained.
* Any other duties that may be requested from time to time in agreement with CDI.
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