Supervised Contact Worker
Up to £24 per hour
Kendal area
Duties
Active Monitoring: Maintaining "sight and sound" supervision at all times during contact sessions to ensure the child's safety and well-being.
Intervention: Step in immediately if contact becomes unsafe, or if the agreed-upon "Contact Agreement" is breached (e.g., a parent making inappropriate comments or trying to share unauthorised information).
Objective Recording: Writing detailed, factual reports after every session. These reports are legal documents used by Social Workers and Courts to decide if contact should increase, decrease, or remain supervised.
Transportation: Many roles involve collecting children from foster placements, transporting them safely to the contact centre, and returning them afterwards.
Venue Management: Ensuring the contact room is child-friendly, equipped with toys or activities, and left tidy.
Coordination: Managing the "handover" process, often ensuring that birth parents and foster carers do not come into direct contact if there is high conflict or a risk of friction.
Parenting Support: Providing subtle guidance or "role modeling" to parents (e.g., suggesting a game to play or helping a parent understand a child's cues).
Emotional Support: Managing the emotions of both the child and the parent. This includes helping a child settle in if they are anxious and de-escalating tension if a parent becomes frustrated.
Risk Assessment: Constantly assessing the physical and emotional risks during a session.
Court Attendance: While rare, you may be called to court to give evidence based on the reports you have written regarding the quality of the parent-child interaction.
Communication: Alerting the allocated Social Worker immediately if any significant safeguarding concerns arise.
Why work for Randstad :
- Dedicated Consultant to help with your recruitment needs
- Twice weekly Payroll
- Refer a friend bonus
Please call the Abigail at 01912111382
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
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