Senior Early Help Practitioner

Senior Early Help Practitioner

Duration: Initially 3 months
Hours: 36 hours a week
Rate: £30 umbrella an hour (£23 PAYE an hour)

Southwark Council are looking for a Senior Early Help Practitioner to join their Under 11 Family Early Help Service

Responsibilities:

• Focus on supporting families working closely with partner agencies to deliver high quality early intervention to families in collaboration with primary schools


• Engage families in recognizing the need for change in order to improve outcomes for their children


• Conduct whole family assessments that consider risk factors such as poor school attendance, physical and mental health issues, substance misuse, worklessness etc.


• Create a whole family plan with families that includes the voice of children and has SMART objectives


• Review progress of family plans regularly and plan exit strategies to sustain progress

Requirements

• Experience and working knowledge of an early intervention setting and statutory work with children and families with a demonstrable track record in family work and leading professional collaborations


• Must hold a recognized and relevant academic and/or professional qualification at level5/Degree level or higher in direct work with families or have significant experience in complex whole family work


• Significant experience of complex whole family direct work with children and their families within an early help context


• Experience of supervising, training and managing staff undertaking whole family work