Family Support Worker Diploma Course

Description

Do you consider yourself a kind and compassionate person who loves helping people struggling with illness? If so, a career as a Support Worker might be for you. Support Workers provide support to individuals and families by carrying out various household and personal care tasks. It is a very gratifying profession.

What precisely does a support worker do for a living? They help people who need varying types of help to live independent lives. In addition, they are vital carers for individuals and their families. Support workers provide practical support such as filling out paperwork, helping with household work, administering medication and providing personal care. They often provide emotional support too. As a support worker, you'll be helping people to live better lives.

It's possible to find a job as a support worker with no prior experience at all. So enrol in our course to learn all the required knowledge and tips for starting a career as a Social Worker.

Learning Outcome of Support Worker course

• Understand the principles and functions of a Support Worker.
• Get to know the career prospects
• Introduce yourself to support-related legislation, policy, and guidance.
• Learn about the impact of parental mental health problems on parenting and children.
• Familiarise yourself with intervention and support for children and families with mental health issues and parental substance misuse.
• Understand how to assist children coping with parental divorce or separation.
• Become acquainted with safeguarding and skilled at assessing needs.
• Enhance your abilities in disabled children, caregivers, youth institutions, and contextual safeguarding.
• Acquire a better understanding of the personal qualities required for relationship development.

The training package includes:

1. Family Support Worker
2. Family Law
3. Couples Therapy & Counselling

This premium online training ensures your professional development with CPD QS accreditation. You'll have the privilege of learning in your own time, at your own pace and earning an accredited certificate.

Key Benefits

• Eligibility for CPD QS accredited certificates on successful completion
• Learning materials contain engaging audio-visual elements for your comfort
• Freedom to study at your own pace
• 24/7 access to the materials for 12 months
• Full Tutor support on weekdays (Monday - Friday)

Course Curriculum:

Module 1: Introduction To Family Support Work

• Definition of Family Support
• Principles of Family Support
• Functions
• Duties & Responsibilities
• Daily Activities
• The Key Qualities
• How To Become A Family Support Worker
• Salary and Working Hours
• Professional Development
• Career Prospects
• Summary/Keynotes of The Module

Module 2: Legislation, Policy, and Guidance

• Introduction to Legislation, Policy, and Guidance
• History of Child Protection Legislation
• Overview of legislation - England
• The Children and Families Act of 2014
• Policy and guidance - England
• Legislation, Policy and guidance - Scotland
• Legislation, Policy and guidance - Northern Ireland
• Legislation, Policy and guidance - Wales
• Summary/Keynotes Of The Module

Module 3: Solving Family Issues: part-1

• Parental mental health - how to help children living with parents with mental health problems
• Parental mental health - intervention and support for children and families
• Peer support for children and young people
• Monitoring progress
• Parental substance misuse - how to help children living with parents who misuse alcohol and drugs
• Parental substance misuse - assessing the risk of parental alcohol and drug misuse
• Parental substance misuse - intervention and support for children and families
• Domestic abuse
• Risk factors for all child abuse and neglect
• Summary/Keynotes of The Module

Module 4: Solving Family Issues: part-2

• Separation, divorce, and parental responsibility
• Helping children with divorce or separation
• What is parental responsibility?
• Who has parental responsibility?
• Separation, divorce, and contact
• What the law says about child contact
• General advice on talking about difficult topics
• Why it's good to talk
• Creating the right situation
• Starting the conversation
• Listening is important too
• Talking about life-changing topics
• Books to help to talk about difficult topics
• Summary/Keynotes of The Module

Module 5: Safeguarding - assessing need and providing help: Part-1

• Introduction to Safeguarding
• Who is involved with safeguarding?
• Child-Centred Approach to Safeguarding
• Coordinated Approach to Safeguarding
• Assessing need and providing help
• Early help
• Identifying children and families who would benefit from early help
• Effective assessment of the need for early help
• Provision of effective early help services
• Access, referral, and information sharing
• Summary/Keynotes of The Module

Module 6: Safeguarding - assessing need and providing help: Part-2

• Disabled children, carers, youth establishments, and contextual safeguarding
• Assessment of disabled children and their carers
• Assessment of young carers
• Assessment of children in secure youth establishments
• Contextual safeguarding
• Assessment purpose, protocols, principles, and parameters
• Analysis, outcomes, and timeliness
• Developing a clear analysis
• Focusing on outcomes
• Timeliness
• Summary/Keynotes of The Module

Module 7: Building relationships

• Types of family and what makes healthy families
• Why relationships are key to good social work
• The importance of relationships in social work to relationships in social work
• The personal qualities required for relationship building
• Working on empathy to build relationships
• The professional attributes required for relationship building
• Self-knowledge and professional use of self in relationship building
• Taking an individualised approach
• Involving the parents
• What parents want from the relationship
• Sharing information
• Building trust with the family
• Challenges in relationship building
• Summary/Keynotes of The Module

This online training has been designed by industry experts and will give you an in-depth understanding of this topic. The certificate you'll achieve after completing the Support Worker bundle will help you land the job you want in a related field.

Certificate of Achievement

Endorsed Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme

After completing the following courses under the Support Worker training, learners will be able to order endorsed certificates as proof of their achievement:

• Family Law (within the UK: £109, International: £119)
• Couples Therapy & Counselling (within the UK: £109, International: £119)

Hardcopy of these certificates of achievement endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme can be ordered and received straight to your home by post, by paying the certificate prices mentioned besides the respective course's name.

Certification
Once you have finished the course, you will be eligible to apply for a CPD QS accredited certificate as proof of your new skills and your continued professional development. Certificates are available as PDF for £9, or you can request a hard copy to be sent in the post for £15.

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