Strengthening Families Practitioner

6 months ago


Kettering, United Kingdom Northamptonshire Children's Trust Full time

About the role
Do you have the skills and experience to engage and build positive trusting relationships with parents, children and young people to inspire them to make positive changes and improve life opportunities?

We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated person with excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills to join our hard-working teams.

You will be based in one of our Children’s Centres in the North of the County

What will you be doing?
You will be required to manage a caseload of families. This will include undertaking structured one-to-one family support work as a lead professional or a co-worker working alongside other professionals.

About you
You have excellent communication skills, written and verbal. You must be able to write Assessments and support plans by building positive relationships with families

You understand good practice and evidence-based interventions that will support positive change with children and their family

You have a good understanding and experience of partnership working

You are flexible and creative with the support you are able to offer to children and families

You can work on your own initiative and as part of a team,

You meet the qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience as required in the Job specification.

About us
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children’s Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.

Our benefits
We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

- 2 Day Induction Programme
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Local government Pension Scheme
- Heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
- Employee Discount Scheme
- 28 days’ annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years’ service
- Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Monthly quality supervision



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