Early Help Worker

**Vacancy: Early Help Worker**

**£28,371 per annum PRO-RATA (£22,696 actual)**

**4 days per week (28.8 hours)**

**Contract Initially 3rd January 2023 to 31st August 2023**

**First Steps Family Wellbeing Centre & First Steps Enterprise Ltd**

**Overview**

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the First Steps Family Wellbeing Centre Team in

Ainsdale and Birkdale, Southport. The role involves delivering high quality services and support to children and families facing a range of difficulties in need of Early Help or who are identified as needing continuing support after having been involved with statutory social work services.

This role involves the completion of Early Help assessments, direct work with children and coordinating Early Help meetings to ensure that there are clear plans in place to improve the outcomes for children and young people (0-19 years). Experience of completing assessments, using EHM (Early

Help Module), multi-agency working, delivering high quality interventions and direct work with children is essential to this role.

The role will also involve the delivery of activities through the appropriate models and frameworks to engage, empower and enable families within our reach to take ownership of their own solutions and develop resilience.

**Responsible To**

All daily management and supervision rests with the school/Family Well-Being Centre
- Senior Early Help Worker
- Head Teacher of Farnborough Road Infants School

Employed by First Steps Enterprise Limited - for employment issues:

- Managing Director

**Job Purpose**

1. Responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, Young people (0 - 19), their families and adults by delivering high quality interventions, acting as their single point of contact, coordinating a holistic, temporary offer of support focusing on outcomes.

2. Deliver activities through the appropriate models and frameworks to engage, empower and enable residents to take ownership of their own solutions and develop resilience.

3. Promote engagement of the universal offer through the community, voluntary and faith sector organisations.

**Main Duties**

1. Effectively manage and progress a caseload to achieve positive outcomes based on a solution focussed approach.

2. Assess and identify levels of risk, vulnerability and safeguarding using prescribed assessment tools, operating within agreed models and in line with agreed frameworks and protection plans ensuring that the individuals or families voice is captured throughout the whole assessment and intervention process.

3. Deliver targeted activity working either on a 1-1 basis or in groups using a holistic approach to address the root causes in line with the localities outcome framework.

4. Deliver protective, supportive and needs led plans and review in line with case management standards.

5. Maintain accurate records of all assessments, plans, actions, reviews, court reports, decisions, learning portfolios and outcomes using Sefton Council’s systems.

6. Record all agreed exit strategies and manage cases within the prescribed time limits unless otherwise agreed by Team Manager.

7. Participate in conferences, reviews, meetings and other forums as required in line with the one worker one family approach to engage, empower and enable positive steps towards change.

8. Undertake home visits to ensure that Sefton residents are safeguarded within the community.

9. Increase parental engagement to strengthen family relationships and support children’s education

10. Manage and facilitate away days and residential placements as appropriate.

11. Work co-operatively with colleagues and partners to share information, ensuring a joined-up approach.

12. Ensure Quality Assurance Framework, legislation, regulations, policies and procedures are central to all good practice.

13. Engage within the development of the service and CPD through PDR, training team / service meetings and council events.

14. Utilise IT systems to evidence the journey of change through recording and maintaining accurate case notes, family interactions and other records as specified through national guidance service requirements and in line with Sefton Council policies and procedures.

Identify any improvements to IT systems that would improve operational efficiency.

15. Support other professionals in the recording of “Life Stories” for children as appropriate.

16. Work in partnership with families to support parental understanding of their role in their child’s development by modelling high quality early education practice within the home as part of targeted interventions.

17. Signpost parents to activities within the community to build resilience within the family.

Support family members to develop skills to enable them to carry out household tasks such as budgeting, supporting health and hygiene, increasing parental confidence and capacity.

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