Early Help Practitioner, Burton Early Help Team

Salary:  £23,541.00 - £27,041 per annum pro rata

18.5 Hours per week

2 part time posts (one permanent position & 1 fixed term to 30 July 2021)

Staffordshire is working in a more localised and co-ordinated way to ensure families receive the right help at the right time.  Families First is a way of working that brings together the full range of front- line services that deliver support to children, young people and their families. 

We currently have 2 vacancies for an Early Help Practitioner for 18.5 hours per week based in Burton-on-Trent (1 permanent & 1 fixed term to end of July 21), covering the whole of East Staffordshire including Uttoxeter.

The role needs you to work effectively with children and families to secure improved outcomes and reduce their need for specialist service interventions.

You will work in a whole family approach to deliver a comprehensive family support package to support complex families (including Building Resilient Families (BRFC) intense cases), using the early help assessment and plan, agreeing clear actions, outcomes and responsibilities.

1. Take on the lead professional role for a number of families liaising and coordinating with a range of agencies.

 

 

1. To actively engage children, young people and their parents/carers to ensure appropriate access to early and statutory education is secured and maintained.

1. Complete direct work and home visits including emergency work with children, young people and their families maximizing their involvement in accordance with outcomes identified in the child’s plan.

1. As a member of the cluster team, act as a key worker for early help cases and work alongside social workers who hold child in need/child protection cases as required.

1. As a member of the cluster team, support the Early Help Coordinator in the identification of cases meeting a statutory threshold requiring step up to a social worker.

1. Deliver effective, timely end to end case work management, complete case recording and maintain case management records in accordance with service and professional standards.

1. Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other locality providers.

1. Engage with families to complete direct work with children and young people to promote healthy lifestyles, positive peer/family relationships and safe parenting to develop a good understanding of their culture/community identity.

 

 

 

 

1. Work persistently and assertively with families and other agencies to assess, provide or co-ordinate targeted support.

 

 

1. Effectively assess risk as part of the early help assessment.

1. Signpost to and support children and young people to engage with appropriate agencies and activities to promote their life chances and outcomes.

1. Provide intervention to families pre-birth in accordance with SSCB procedures.

1. To deliver evidence-based group work as directed by the Early Help Coordinator.

Making sure you are well supported and given the opportunity to develop and progress is a high priority at Staffordshire and is very important to us.  We have excellent staff development programme and good practice is recognised and rewarded.

This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

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Closing Date: Wednesday 30^th Dec 2020
Interview date tbc in Jan 2021.

For more information about the role please contact:

Ami Insley 0777 3791093 or Mary Stephens 07814 192990 Early Help Coordinators.

 

Please be aware, only application forms completed online will be accepted. We will not accept CV’s or Word application forms.

Our Values

The County Council has adopted a set of values that seeks to achieve the best outcomes for its citizens, communities and employees.

Our People Strategy sets out what we all need to do to make Staffordshire County Council a great place to work, where people are supported to develop, flourish and contribute to our ambitious plans. 

Our values are at the heart of the Strategy to ensure that the focus is on what is important to the organisation and the people it serves:

• Ambitious - We are ambitious for our communities and citizens
• Courageous - We recognise our challenges and are prepared to make courageous decisions
• Empowering - We empower and support our people by giving them the opportunity to do their jobs well.

Benefits for working for us….

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits including:

• An excellent local government pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement from 24 up to 33 days (plus 2 extra statutory days and bank holidays) depending on job role and length of service
• The option to buy up to an additional 2 weeks annual leave
• A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role, which includes agile working, flexible retirement
• Family Friendly Policies - maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave
• Volunteering Scheme
• Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• Access to health and wellbeing support (including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Counselling Services)
• Eye care vouchers
• Car lease scheme / cycle & car loan scheme / employee car share scheme
• Bus and rail travel discounts