Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project: Family Link Worker (Maternity Cover)
Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project (BTAP)
Are recruiting a
Family Link Worker
Position: Maternity leave cover Full time 8 month position
Based in: Ballyfermot Dublin
Contact details: Shay L’Estrange shaybtap@gmail.com 0876412557
About BTAP:
''Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project seek to empower Travellers through innovative community development work, which acts as a catalyst for social change, to collectively participate in redressing the challenges and issues that affect Travellers in order to improve the quality of their lives as a nomadic ethnic group''.
Role overview:
The Family Link Worker will have key responsibility in the areas of relationship building between the local Traveller community, Tusla PPFS, HSE and relevant local community partners who support parents and families.
The Family Link Worker, together with Prevention Partnership and Family Support staff will identify parents' support needs and will contribute to the areas parent support plan if available. This will be done in conjunction with key partners, through training of Parents Plus Facilitator and other Early Intervention programs and co-delivery of these programs.
The Family Link Worker will also engage and be fully supported in the national work across the areas, in adapting and developing the established Parents Plus Program to ensure they are culture-proofed and more accessible to the Traveller community.
Acknowledging the local landscape in the wider Ballyfermot area, the Family Link worker will also support the ABC Family Matters Family Development Worker and the BTAP employed Education Workers to ensure a holistic response is offered to Traveller parents and their children. Special attention will also be given to supporting Traveller children to enroll and engage in pre-school education.