Wellbeing Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Greenock, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

**Wellbeing Practitioner**

**Salary**: circa £22,500 pro rata

**Contract/Hours**: Fixed Term contract for 1 year (until June 2024)
- Full-Time, Term Time, 37 hours per week

**Location**: Greenock, Inverclyde.

**Perks**: Annual leave of 29 days (pro rata), plus public holidays, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, up to 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on our career's portal.
- We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Action for Children so here's what you need to know._

**About Us**

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard and we campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

**About the role**:
You will be based in designated secondary schools in Inverclyde to work with children and young people to improve their wellbeing and attainment.

You will provide targeted support to enable and equip children, young people, and families to manage and improve mental health/wellbeing; whilst helping them to develop coping strategies and resilience for the future (supporting good lifelong mental health).

This also involves working with parents to help them support their child's progress and could mean visiting them at home. We are still supporting parents and children in the current pandemic.

We are looking for a Family Support Practitioner who can establish and maintain effective partnership work with Children and Families, schools and other support agencies in Inverclyde. By engaging and working with referred children and families, providing them with focused support which seeks to improve their school engagement, attendance, overall well-being and resilience.

**You will make a difference by**:

- Engaging and working directly with parents to support direct work with children.
- Helping improve/support parenting skills and techniques.
- Promoting family well-being and resilience.
- Liaising and building positive relationships with educational establishments.
- Managing a caseload effectively.

**You will need**:

- HNC / SVQ 3 in Early Years, Childhood studies or equivalent as a minimum.
- Excellent engagement skills.
- A knowledge and understanding of child development and the emotional, social, intellectual and physical needs of children and young people.
- Direct experience of planning and undertaking structured support work with children, young people and parents.
- Experience of 1:1 and group work, undertaking assessments (of needs) and service planning with difficult to reach children, young people and families.
- Experience of identifying and managing risk; safeguarding children and young people.
- A willingness to work during the day and occasional evening and weekend work as required by individual service users, working within schools and community settings.
- Access to a suitable method of transport to enable the duties of the role to be carried out and the willingness to travel.

Working here is so much more than a job. It's an investment of time to truly make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children, young people, and families across the UK.

We value and celebrate the diversity of those that work with us and as an inclusive workplace we want all our current and future staff to feel able to be themselves in the workplace.

If you want to get to know us a little better, check out our socials on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube.

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