Healthy Family Support Practitioner

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.

The service, which is provided by HCRG Care Group in partnership with Barnardo's, ensures that families continue to have easy access to local services, with staff able to reach children and families in the community; whether in one of our Family Hubs or Delivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a family's home. This flexible and innovative new way of working is about providing services without walls and ensuring those families who need support the most are easily reached.

Broad areas of support and service delivery are:

- Health Visiting
- Parenting Support
- School Nursing
- Family Health
- Resilience and Child Development
- Support for ages 0-19 (25 SEND)

We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced practitioner to join our Healthy Family Team.

Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Support Practitioners, Family Hub Practitioners and Community Engagement workers.

**Healthy Family Support Practitioner Role**
- To work with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.
- To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
- To work co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.
- Undertake developmental and health reviews of children and young people at key stages of their life

We are looking for a practitioner who is experienced in working with young people as this role will be predominantly working with school age age range and their families. much of this role is in schools, there is opportunity to work remotely for record keeping

**Working in an integrated team to provide the following support**:

- To deliver individual and group based activity within one of our Family Hubs, Delivery Sites or within a Community Setting;
- To make contact with families where parental conflict has been identified as a ‘risk' factor, providing brief intervention support and advice
- To support with parenting strategies;
- To work in an empowering way to develop self-confidence, self-esteem and emotional wellbeing within families.
- To support the development of Health Family hubs and Delivery sites as sanctuaries for families fleeing domestic abuse.

Full details of role and responsibilities are detailed within the Job Description attached.

**Essential requirements for the role**
- Qualification mandatory for practice - NVQ Level 3 (Modules to have covered Child Development)
- Experience of work with children and young people
- Able to establish a rapport and build respectful, trusting, honest and supportive relationships
- Able to observe and recognise child, young person or family's behaviour, understand its context and respond to concerns about developmental or behavioural changes.

These roles are based in Barnardo's Essex locality, initially in the Castle Point and Thundersley but may require travel to other sites across South Essex.

Within Barnardo's the job title for this role Project worker 1, this will appear on the job description.

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For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which should be in place by 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's.

**WORKPLACE OFFER: WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU**

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

**Flexibility**

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
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