Early Help Family Support Practitioner
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3-Month Contract with a Local Authority
Summary
- Join our team as an Early Help Family Practitioner where you will play a crucial role in delivering interventions within a multi-agency system. Your work will provide intense support to families with multiple and complex needs. You will conduct child-centered holistic family assessments using evidence-based tools to identify adverse childhood experiences and factors impacting family functioning. Your efforts will aim to increase resilience enhance parenting capacity and promote strong child-parent attachments to support positive child outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Serve as an Early Help Family Practitioner following the Hackney Family Support Practice Guidance and Multi-Agency Team protocol.
- Foster an environment that safeguards children ensuring adherence to appropriate safeguarding procedures.
- Provide structured and individualized support to children and families using assessment tools like Hackneys Early Help Assessment Form and create individual plans with agreed outcomes targets and review dates.
- Act as the lead professional for families coordinating and sharing information at MAT Meetings and leading team meetings around the child.
- Support parents/carers through targeted home work group activities and coordinated services addressing barriers such as housing and financial issues.
- Coordinate and deliver parenting groups to help parents/carers understand their childs needs and enhance their parenting skills.
Requirements
- Significant experience working with children and families.
- Experience providing parenting support and delivering parenting programs groups or forums to vulnerable families with complex needs.
- Experience offering advice information and guidance to families to build resilience and capacity.
- Experience with a child-centered and outcomes-based approach in work with children and families.
- Experience visiting and delivering interventions in family homes.
Essential Qualifications
- Minimum Level 3 qualification in childcare & education primary education work with parents health or social work.
- Level 4 Award in Work with Parents.
Additional Information
- Enhanced DBS required for the role.
The role closes on 19th March 2026 apply ASAP.
Required Skills:
To work as part of a team of Early Help Family Practitioners to deliver interventions as part of a wider multi-agency system in order to provide intense support to families with multiple and complex needs
Required Education:
To work as part of a team of Early Help Family Practitioners to deliver interventions as part of a wider multi-agency system in order to provide intense support to families with multiple and complex needs
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