Early Help Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester City Council Full time

**About The Role**:
Working Hours: 35Hours per week (Monday to Friday between the hours of 7:45AM-6:30PM)

Contract Type: Full time / Temporary (12 Months)

Additional Payments: Essential car user allowance

Closing Date: 4 April 2024
- Essential Car Documentation
- This post is a designated Essential Car User. Therefore, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use at work. You will receive the Essential Car User Allowance.

The focus of Early Help is to improve family functioning and build the family’s own capability to deal effectively with challenges, within a structured evidence-based framework to deliver high quality support and intervention to children and their families to improve outcomes. This involves providing a multi-agency approach with support for partner agencies.

Our aim is to ensure children, young people and their families receive the right level of support, as early as possible, to tackle emerging problems and prevent issues from escalating.
- Strong communication skills to effectively advise and guide agencies in Early Help matters (either face-to-face or over the phone).
- The role holder will deliver high quality direct support to individuals and families managing existing and possible future risks through assessment and plans created with the individual needs of the service user as the priority.
- To be able to work in coordination with partners and professionals. The role holder will assist service users to engage with support services provided by both statutory and voluntary agencies, ensuring that the family is appropriately supported and therefore able to contribute actively in the community.
- The role holder will provide advice and expertise, particularly in relation to new initiatives, to partner agencies and stakeholders to promote the service and represent the rights and needs of the vulnerable residents of Manchester.
- A key part of the role is building a strength based positive relationship with the family. This involves working in partnership with families to identify what support needs to be in place.
- The role holder needs to be experienced in conducting assessments and have a persistent approach to engage families and are flexible within this. They need to understand the children’s daily lived experience and support parents to improve outcomes for children.
- Knowledge of multi-agency working and the safeguarding framework.
- Familiarity with attachment (including adverse childhood experiences) and emotional dysregulation issues.
- Are an excellent team member, having good time management, able to prioritise workload, multi-task and be flexible across their workday.

**About Us**:
We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ - the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

- We take time to listen and understand
- We work together and trust each other
- We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
- We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
- We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

**Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council**

**Guaranteed Interview Scheme**

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

**Accessibility**

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.

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