Early Help Development Worker

3 weeks ago


Harborne, United Kingdom Gateway Family Services Full time
Early Help Development Worker
We have a rewarding opportunity for an Early Help Development Worker to ensure that children, young people and families can access timely Early Help support and activities to improve their wellbeing and quality of life.
If you are passionate about identifying, supporting, and developing a community offer provided by individuals, groups, organisations, services and places, then apply today
Position: Early Help Development Worker
Location: Harborne/hybrid working (this is an outreach position and you will be expected to be based in the community especially within Edgbaston and Northfield but with some city-wide work as well)
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £26,000 per annum
Contract: 2 posts available. 1 x Permanent and 1 x Fixed Term until March 2025
Benefits: Staff Benefits include: Hybrid and Flexible working, Workplace Pension, Employee Assistance Programme, Enhanced annual leave allowance, workplace wellbeing support
Closing Date: Midnight on Sunday 7th July
Interview Date: 15th and 16th July
The Role
You will work as part of a city-wide team of Early Help Development Workers as well as on a locality basis to ensure that they can combine targeted work with locality needs. This will include a strong element of co production, working with residents and community assets to lead on projects and the development of new groups, services, and activities to meet the needs or improve services within the community.
The role will also focus on increasing children and family’s engagement with local assets by working with them to improve accessibility, identify gaps in provision and encourage innovation and improvements to services.
Duties and key responsibilities include:
* Engaging statutory, community and voluntary organisations in a locality and working with all communities in the city.
* Engaging with a broad range of health, education, early years and social care organisations.
* Working with community providers to enable a ‘live’ understanding of community needs and resource capacity as part of a ‘gap analysis’ of the children and families offer across the locality.
* Supporting residents to lead on community projects and the development and delivery of new groups, services, or activities to meet needs or improve services in the community.
* Working with the Family Hub to align outcomes and workstreams with Family Hubs Outcomes.
* Increasing children and families’ engagement with local assets by working with groups and organisations to improve accessibility, identify gaps in provision, and encourage innovation and improvement to services including local commissioning in line with identified needs.
* Responding to targeted areas of work on a city-wide basis.
* Alongside the Service Lead, develop and deliver communications and engagement plans.
* Engaging with the citywide Early Help network, coordinated by BVSC, including regular attendance at meetings, as appropriate.
About You
We are looking for an empathetic communicator with excellent engagement and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a range of people.
You will have experience of:
* Working in an engagement or community development role with diverse community settings with statutory and third sector organisations
* Working with community/grassroots organisations
* Information sharing, consent and confidentiality issues and risks.
* Importance of equalities, diversity, and inclusion.
About the Organisation
A leading provider of services to the health and social care sector, we provide a range of services across Birmingham, Solihull and the West Midlands where the aim is to reduce inequalities in learning, employment and health. As an employer, the organisation is proud to offer a range of benefits to staff including flexible and hybrid working patterns, and the provision of workplace wellbeing support and activities.
You may also have experience in areas such as Community Development Worker, Social Service, Social Services, Support Worker, Care Worker, Early Help, Social Work, Youth, Youth Worker, Support Service, Vulnerable Adult, Care, Care and Support, Social Care, Community Support, Community, Children, Young People, Family, Community Project Officer, Community Partnerships Manager, Community Partnerships Officer, Community Engagement Officer, Community Engagement. #INDNFP
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation

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