Family Safeguarding Recovery and Wellbeing Worker

The post-holder is responsible for individual and group work with adults whose behaviours mean their children are at risk of harm. They will ensure that parents who come into the Family Safeguarding programme, and have a mental health concerns, are provided with holistic, strengths based support, focusing on the individual needs of the parent and family, linking with wider Open Mental Health offer of support as required., 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Actively engage those people introduced in recognised social, therapeutic, creative, practical and community activities.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Create a safe, positive environment that supports and enables individuals and groups to participate, achieve and flourish.

Mind in Somerset is a local mental health charity and part of the national Mind network, providing emotional wellbeing and mental health support across Somerset. It exists to ensure that anyone experiencing mental health difficulties has access to advice, support, and services that improve wellbeing and quality of life.

It operates a wide range of services including helplines, digital support, peer groups, one-to-one support, wellbeing hubs, and community-based activities, working both independently and in partnership with NHS and voluntary sector organisations.