Level 4 Award (Unit 400 Mandatory Unit)

Supporting Families with Multiple and Complex Needs is a course which provides an opportunity for practitioners to achieve the full Level 4 Award in Work With Parents. The course is for practitioners working with parents and families who have multiple needs and is particularly relevant for family intervention key workers.

It is a five day training course that explores the following topics:

• The National Occupational Standards for Work with Parents.
• The family intervention key worker functional map.
• Partnership working: strengths based and evidence based practice.
• Working with diverse families in an inclusive and containing way.
• Reflecting on how to identify family strengths, needs and concerns within a community context.
• Understand the socio-economic and other factors that impact on family function.
• Change and transition theory.
• Understand how stressful and traumatic life events affect families.
• Working with families in high emotional states.
• Building on the knowledge needed and practical skills required to engage with families: contracting; assessing; creating goal based action plans; coaching; overcoming obstacles and challenges; using incentives and sanctions and effective completion and closure.
• Effective signposting and working with a multi-agency team around the family.

This course covers the Unit 400 Build and Maintain Relationships in Work with Parents and provides an opportunity for practitioners to achieve the Level 4 Work with Parents Award.