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Independent Social Work Services

Verachilly Social Care provides high-quality social work intervention through accessing its extensive network of experienced Social Work from a variety of disciplines and specialisms. At Verachilly Social Care, we are able to respond quickly and flexibly, offering individual Independent Social Workers, a social work practice model or intervention to deliver a range of assessments and undertake small or larger projects to assist busy Local Authorities and Children’s Legal Firms across the UK. Our services are both Spot Purchased and Contracted and repeat custom is evidence of our continued high quality and best value service provision.

Verachilly Social Care is a well-established and respected company located in Central Bedfordshire to service clients within and in other areas. We provide a wide range of assessment and Social Work Assistant (SWA) services to Individuals, Local Authorities and Legal Firms working with children and families subject to public and private law proceedings. Priding itself on an ability to flexibly respond to customer needs, Verachilly Social Care is unique, innovative and has established an excellent reputation for quality and is a front runner in the provision of bespoke Social Work throughout the UK. Verachilly Social Care not only ensures robust quality assurance procedures internally but welcomes external scrutiny of its services.

Early Help and Family Support Services

Our Early Intervention and Intensive Family Support Services is managed by an experienced Social Worker with extensive experience in frontline Children Services in both Child Protection and Children with Disability Service. We aim to support children, young people, and their parents to build their parenting capacity and skills to enable them to manage appropriate boundaries and prioritise the needs of their children. This service is also available to young people over the age of 16 years who are in Care of the Local Authority and aim to live more independently. Our Intensive Family Support Service is appropriate where there are significant issues around the safety of children and young people in their environment.

At Verachilly Social Care, we can offer Early Help and Family Support Service 24/7 to families with whom we work and aim to bring about sustainable changes to minimise risk and promote positive outcomes. This service can filter into ongoing assessment and inform Children’s Services in their care planning and identifying ongoing support needs as appropriate. Input is intended to be time-limited, though it is recognized that some families require extended periods of longer-term family support.

Our Team works with families who are in need of some additional support to achieve desired outcomes as defined in CIN/CP plans. We ensure that our focus is to help parents or carers to make positive changes in their family lives. We believe that parents and carers often want to make changes too and that working together gives a greater chance of progress. We work use empowerment and motivational interviewing model to allow families to remain together and develop better routines, boundaries and alleviate concerns of significant risk or harm. We work within the family environment by supporting and helping changes to be made and sustained. This might include helping clients with parenting, establishing routines and debt management. Helping to setup important appointments and support families in attendance, eg with housing, health, schools, looking at budgeting etc. We help families to understand children’s behaviour and suggest ways in which behaviour can be managed more effectively. Work will be based on a plan of interventions and support which will be developed in partnership with the client and the referrer. The plan of work is regularly reviewed and updated long as required to effect positive change, enabling a better environment and future for the whole family.

We offer 6 to 12 weeks of intensive support packages depending on the care plan and complexity of needs and risk of children being taken into the care of the local authority. The purpose of the intervention is to help inform and therefore manage risk more effectively. To avoid short periods of unplanned ‘accommodation’ of young people, high levels of intensive support are used to reduce risk factors. Areas of work are normally identified within the child protection plan/agreed with the social worker/manager. We allocate key workers who will become active members of the core group and would normally attend as appropriate. The allocated key worker would maintain regular contact with the social worker with agreed levels of reporting (usually weekly via e-mail). CP concerns and significant events are reported outside of this.

Community Outreach Services

Our Community Support Service is here to provide advice, information and holistic outreach support to people who are experiencing barriers meeting their social care needs.

We work with adults and children with learning difficulties, mental health, long-term health conditions, low self-esteem and people from Black Minority Ethnic groups who cannot access support due to their language barriers.

We work alongside you to develop an individually tailored package of support that meets your needs, working with you to find the solutions that are right for you.

Our high-quality service is flexible and will help you to resolve real-life difficulties and to improve your own independence, quality of life and wellbeing.

How can we help

The areas of support will be built around your needs, to help you with the goals that are most important to you. VCS Community Care Support can provide;

Emotional and practical support.

Help to improve your health and wellbeing through community access to engage in physical activities.

Housing related support and advice, including homelessness

Support with benefit applications

Assistance in dealing positively with neighbourly disputes

Support to attend appointments with other services and community resources

Signposting and onward referral to other services and community resources

Help to reduce episodes of mental health crisis by prompting you to take your medication and attend your appointments.

Building life skills, confidence and self-esteem through Life Skills Coaching.

Progression Coaching and Advocacy for Care leavers transitioning into Adulthood.

Support to build social networks and reduce isolation

Family issues such as Child Protection or Child in Need concerns.

Direct work with parents and children

Contact Supervision

Home Visits 24/7 including bank holidays

Advocacy Services.

We can provide short-term advice, information and support, and also work for a longer period with individuals with needs that may take more time to resolve. The length of the support will be based on individual needs.

BME Family Support Service

Are you an agency seeking to engage with your African and other ethnic minority communities?

Are you an agency seeking to engage with your African and other ethnic minority communities?

Would you like to explore options to increase uptake of your services by these communities to improve the outcome of these families?

Whether you are a parent, a parent group or you work with children voluntarily in a club or a community group we would like to work with you.

Would you like to be equipped and supported to become more effective in working with children?

Do you need information on any parenting issues or in understanding the legal aspects of parenting / working with children in the UK?

We Can offer Direct Work and Workshops on;

Cultural Awareness Workshops for practitioners.

Facilitated Open Dialogue workshops for practitioners and service users.

Family group Conference.

Cross cultural parenting

Understanding the UK education system

Safeguarding and the African Family

Behaviour management relevant to the ages and stages of children

Effective Communication in the family

Coaching Services for Adults and Children

We offer coaching services to families who need extra support to make positive changes within their lives. We work closely with families so they can develop better boundaries and routines and to not only implement change but also to maintain it in the long run.

Our coaching helps with everything from budgeting to dealing with schools, healthcare professionals, and housing providers, and we can work closely with families so that they can develop a better understanding of their child’s behaviour and how to manage it.
Our life skills coaching services are tailored to meet the specific needs of each family so they can create a better environment and a more positive future.

We also offer targeted Progression Coaching to Care Leavers who are struggling to engage with their allocated workers to work through their pathway plans to ensure that they are ready

Vacancies

At Vera Chilly Social Care Accommodation, we are always looking for talented people to join our team. If you are committed to helping young people achieve their full potential, we want to hear from you.
It is Vera Chilly Social Care Accommodation's aim to recruit the best person for each vacancy and any offers made will be based purely on objective assessment methods. We are committed to adopting a consistent and thorough process of Safer Recruitment in order to ensure that people who are unsuitable to work with young people are prevented from doing so.

We are committed to promoting the welfare of young people and keeping them safe. To enable us to safeguard our young people, our vetting process requires all applicants who are successful at interview to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Services check prior to any commencement of employment. For applicants who may have lived outside of the UK for 6 months or more, the candidate will be asked to complete the relevant checks equivalent to those carried out by the DBS.
In line with The Asylum and Immigration Act 2006, we will only accept applications from candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK.
We are also committed to equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively across all our activities.

Vera Chilly Recruitment Team are friendly and approachable therefore feel free to make an initial enquiry if you want to have a chat regarding our job roles. Our aim is to have a workforce that represents a variety of backgrounds and cultures and can provide the relevant knowledge, abilities, and skills for our organisation.
Please complete our application form below and email your documents to our recruitment email: Recruitment@verachillysocialcare.co.uk

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