Samantha Braid

To deliver a range of family support services as part of a whole family approach (0-18years). This involves direct work with children, young people, parents and carers with additional needs and vulnerabilities. To work collaboratively with partner agencies including Education, Social Work, Community Development, Health and Third Sector to promote wellbeing and achieve positive outcomes.

Deliver a range of interventions promoting the wellbeing of children, young people and their families based on assessment of need.

Supporting children and young people to increase resilience and improve outcomes for example attendance, attainment, emotional wellbeing, family relationships, developmental milestones, risk taking behaviours.

Contributing to a team around the child approach, providing practical support and advice to families to address wellbeing needs and concerns.

Improving families engagement with universal and intensive services working in partnership with stakeholders, ensuring close link between home, school and other support services.

Involving children, young people and families in decisions that affect them.

Delivering evidence based groupwork to children, young people and parents to promote wellbeing, as well as develop bespoke groupwork to meet need of individual groups.

Responding to wellbeing needs, concerns and risks including child protection issues taking appropriate action.

Recording service user information and measuring impact of support.

Working to Fife Council policies and procedures, ensuring that risk assessment and data protection guidelines are followed.

Supporting families in crisis, signposting to other services depending on needs and vulnerabilities.

Supporting the coordination of the full range of family support services in localities, working flexibly to meet needs.

Support adults with disabilities and health needs to access, secure and retain employment.

Review client progress through reflective practice, observation and consultation with all relevant parties.

Maintain and update electronic and hard copy client records.

Provide a robust evidence trail of all activities and work undertaken.

Liaise with professionals within and external to Fife Council to assist individuals address challenges, barriers and progress toward their employment goals.

Assist the team in promoting the service to partner agencies, including public, private and third sector organisations and contribute to networking meetings and events with partner agencies.

Develop and maintain a network of employers from existing and new sources, liaise regularly with employers through direct contact, help employers create and use existing opportunities for placements and paid jobs on an individual’s behalf.

Provide caseload and work reports on targets and outcomes achieved.

Support the pupils associated health and care needs.

Support teaching staff to implement the planned learning programme, and support independently when teacher unavailable

Support pupils/children individually, in class or in small groups in identified areas of learning and personal development.

Contribute information to update planning and review process for individual pupils/children including additional planning such as Child’s Plan.

Contribute to a stimulating learning environment and programme by supporting the work of the teacher and assisting in the timetabling and organisation

Contribute to written records of the progress of pupil support programmes

Provide a high level of care to enable the pupil/child to function to their full potential e.g. gastrostomy/peg feeding, administration of medication, toileting, catheterisation

Organise and participate in lunchtime clubs/learning support clubs as appropriate to school and pupil needs.

Use specialist equipment (such as specialist IT) to enable pupils with severe physical disabilities to access learning and teaching

Use specialist skills in a variety of communication methods to facilitate pupils’ access to the lesson/subject and classroom interactions, including the use of sign language, Braille, augmentative and alternative communication equipment bilingual input or the interpretation of verbal and written instructions.