Healthy Family Support Practitioner

3 days ago


Saffron Walden, United Kingdom Barnardos Full time

**About our service**

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)

**Healthy Family SupportPractitioner 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** children and or **young people** 0-19yrs and **their families**

0-5yrs
- Working in an integrated team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme
- Supporting the delivery of Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting programme (MECSH)
- Promoting first relationships and attachment
- Promotion of the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI)
- Providing universal and targeted support to families through delivery of group sessions
- Working in partnership with individuals and their families to achieve positive outcomes
- Deliver evidenced based parenting support to all families
- Providing evidence-based interventions with families to support their children to become School Ready and meet age appropriate levels of development
- Organising and undertaking Integrated two-year reviews in partnership with the family and the child's Early years setting
- To participate in and deliver ECFWS virtual sessions to ensure all families are reached and have meaningful contact and achievable outcomes
- To make contact with families where parental conflict has been identified as a 'risk' factor, providing brief intervention support and advice
- Participating and leading on health promotion activities in the family hubs and delivery sites or at external venues and events

5 - 19 (25 SEND)
- To make contact **with families** where parental conflict has been identified as a 'risk' factor, providing brief intervention **support** and advice
- Provide Coaching and Skills training to **young people** and **their** parents to **support** the development of **emotional** literacy and overall wellbeing
- To Deliver Educational sessions to Parents, **Children** and **Young People** adapting style and content to meet the audience.
- To **work** in partnership **with** other specialist providers in providing dedicated **support** to **families** of **children** aged 6-19 **with** a view to minimising harm and building the resilience of **children** and **young people**.
- To **work** in an empowering way to develop self-confidence, self esteem and **emotional** wellbeing within **families** - **Support** the development of **Health Family** hubs and Delivery sites as sanctuaries for **families** fleeing domestic abuse

Essential requirements for the **role**
- Qualification mandatory for practice -A minimum NVQ Level 3
- Can demonstrate some experience of working 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.

**A valid driving licence and use of a car is essential for this role.**

This **role** is based in the West Essex locality, **working** in and around the Uttlesford area.

As per NHS guidance this role will require successful applicants to evidence immunisations or immunity for MMR and Chicken Pox. This is due to the clinical focus of some tasks and the requirement to work with vulnerable families, young people and children.

The roles within this service may also require the successful applicant to wear PPE including the wearing of a protective mask, to follow social distancing rules as stated within the current NHS guidelines and to remain compliant with any future mandatoryrequirements introduced by the Government/NHS.

**Benefits**:

- 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.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options



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