Family Support Worker

Oasis’s vision is to create community hubs; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and the whole community, which includes delivering first-class and innovative education.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Family Support Worker to work as part of our Oasis Hub Waterloo team, to engage and work with parents/carers, supporting them to access Hub activities, develop their personal and parenting skills, knowledge and aspirations.

Key responsibilities will be:

To deliver and support the wider Family Support across Oasis Hub Waterloo

To provide individual casework support for parents & families (e.g. Advocacy, pastoral support, relationship building and emotional support).

Providing in-depth face-to-face casework advice to clients linked to Family Support

To facilitate preventative work, including outreach and raising awareness of Oasis activities and services through existing project work and community events.

The successful post holder must have:

A GCSE in English or relevant professional qualification or able to demonstrate qualification by experience.

Successful experience of working with parents / carers and complex families

The ability to deal with private information and sensitive issues with a calm and confident approach in difficult situations.

Ability to function in diverse settings and with a wide range of professional agencies.

Be self-motivated, resilient, with excellent organisational/administrative and inter-personal skills.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing national organisation, making a difference to communities on a local level, while individually improving the life chances of young people. As part of the package, Oasis offers:

A pension scheme, currently offering 7% employer contribution

A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays)