Tamara Booth
I have recently started a new role within the council. I work in the STARS team (Strengthening Tameside’s Approach to repeat separations). This is an intensive early help offer for parents / mothers who have had children removed from them previously.
My aim as a family intervention worker is to provide a holistic offer of support to help break and repair this cycle to promote positive outcomes.
What I find most fulfilling is seeing families make positive change to enable them to make a fresh start. Some of the families I work with often have a past history with drugs or alcohol abuse or have suffered some trauma in their lives which has affected their ability to parent their own children successfully.
As a service we recognise that the majority of our families have a distrust in professionals who feel view them in a negative light. As a service we believe every family is capable of positive and lasting change.
My advice for HSC graduates would be to learn from everything – every moment is an opportunity to learn from everyone around you, don’t be disheartened when you apply for a job and you’re not successful. Learn from it.
Highlights from my time at Staffordshire University would be the friendships I made also, the wealth of knowledge and experience from the tutors, who went above and beyond to support my learning journey.