About The role
We have a 6 month secondment opportunity for an Advanced Practitioner within the 0-19 Early Help East central HUB Team. This post requires relevant experience at a senior practitioner level.
Barnets 0-19 Early Help Hubs bring together what were our former Childrens Centres family support team youth service and parenting support into one integrated service. Offering interventions across the continuum of need- including parenting programmes and youth activities through to leading on more complex cases such as those stepping down from Social Care or joint work on statutory cases.
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The post will also be part of a supporting the management team in responding to referrals requiring an early help approach as well as holding a small case addition for this role you will need to demonstrate that you have supervisory experience and are able to manage staff that work directly with families across the 0-19 age range.
You will need to have a solid understanding of safeguarding issues and a clear understanding of the early intervention and prevention agenda. The role will also involve you initially holding more complex cases prior to allocation to a 0-19 Practitioner.
The successful candidate will also have some responsibility for supporting the Early Help Assessment process. Working in the 0-19 EH Hub team and where appropriate provide the Lead Professional role for those requiring complex Early Help Assessments. Building positive relationships with partners from a variety of backgrounds helping them to build on existing skills and experience and gain confidence in this area. Part of the role will be to promote the use of the Early Help Assessment process and multi-agency working across the local childrens workforce as the means of offering children coordinated support in a timely way to prevent their needs from increasing. Supporting in the gathering analysing and understanding data around integrated working to inform service planning development and commissioning . To provide a quality assurance role in relation to the Early Help Assessment process
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