Family Support Worker Childrens and Young People

7 months ago

Barking, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to be part of an integrated pilot looking to support children and their families to achieve a healthy weight and healthy lifestyles.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone that wants to make a real difference to our local communities. Barking and Dagenham has some big public health challenges, including the worst childhood obesity in London and lower life expectancy than the England average. We are one of the 20% most deprived boroughs in England and child poverty is amongst the highest in London boroughs and the country (with 46% of children living in households on the poverty line). We also have the highest proportion of children aged 0-17 in the UK. However, it is also a borough of great change - there is so much going on in Barking and Dagenham, even Hollywood wants to be part of it

Barking and Dagenham’s latest National Childhood measurement programme (NCMP) results 2022 indicate that 12.9 % of Children in Year R are overweight or obese, rising to 52.7 % of children at year 6. These are the highest rates of obesity in England, and result in our children experiencing numerous health and wellbeing complications. For this reason, Barking and Dagenham are piloting a specialist weight management service to tackle and halt rising obesity rates.

Do you have a passion for promoting healthy eating & promoting healthy lifestyles to children & their families? Are you able to motivate people? Do you have experience of working in health, local authority, or education? Would you like to be part of an exciting new integrated role working across both health & Public Health to support children, young people & their families to eat healthily & make sustainable changes towards healthy lifestyles?

We are looking someone who has experience of working with vulnerable children & their families, with an understanding of community-based health programmes working either as a family worker, nursery nurse or other health promotion roles. You need to be self-motivated, have experience of working in collaboration with partners & communities, & be able to lead groups to support & promote health & wellbeing. You must also have experience & understanding of data collection to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of targeting interventions.

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

High Cost Area Supplement - London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary with a minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum (pro rata).

The Complications of Excessive Weight (CEW) is a public health lead initiative, developing a holistic approach to treating childhood obesity, including providing interventions such as family based therapy, and using culturally appropriate factors to personalise a support plan supporting dietary strategies for healthy eating and behaviours.

The post holder’s responsibilities will be responsible for developing and delivering family support related to a two-year Complications of Excess Weight (CEW) clinic pilot. This will include
- coordinating identified CYP and families, supporting CYP and families through their treatment journey (including parenting support), strengthening family relationships, working with services and partners to provide diverse support (e.g. access to financial advice), and development and improvement of the family support model. The post holder will be responsible for developing a directory of local services to be used as a resource by the team and the families. They will also be responsible for delivering group interventions for parents and young people.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

The post holder will achieve this by

Developing relationships with a range of partners working with the 0-19 population and their families in order to develop and deliver CYP and family
- centred support.

Supporting the Operational Lead in collation of data and information in relating to CYP healthier weight and the B&D Children and Young People (C

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