Senior Early Help Practitioner

**The job itself**:
**The outcome of the council’s Total Pay and Reward review means the full-time salary for this position from 1**st** April 2024 will be £33,024 to £35,745. The salary will be pro rata for part time and term time vacancies.**

If you’re looking for a role where you can support children and families whilst being part of a strong team, our Senior Early Help Practitioner role might be the next step in your career.

We have a great and exciting opportunity available, full time temporary position for a Senior Early Help Practitioner within the Children’s Centre Team in the North of the East Riding. This is to cover maternity leave. This role is for a temporary 37 hour a week contract Monday-Friday, with some flexibility expected to meet the needs of the families that we work with. This may include some evening and weekend work where required.

The role is essential to providing effective help and support to children, young people and their families.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is an innovative Local Authority which constantly strives to improve the standard of services provided to children, families and young people in our area. Our vision is to ensure that vulnerable children and young people receive excellent services to keep them safe and to make sure they reach their full potential. We are responding to the challenges we face with energy and innovation.

This role will be based at Beeford Children's Centre, with a view to supporting families across a rural area. However, as this role is based in the North, there is potentially for supporting families anywhere in this area.

We are looking for energetic and creative workers who can demonstrate tenacity and enthusiasm in making a positive difference to the lives of children and young people. You will be passionate about ensuring our most vulnerable children are supported to achieve their full potential.

In East Riding we really value positive relationships, therefore, it is essential that the post holder is able to work relationally with others with a flexible and adaptable approach - always demonstrating their commitment to working to the highest possible standards whilst remaining at all times child centred. You will be able to build positive working relationships with children and young people, professionals and carers as well as respectfully challenge when appropriate. You will be able to work on your own initiative but also perform as part of a wider team. You will be able and committed to writing child’s records, plans and reports to a high standard each evidencing the voice of children, young people and families throughout.

**Why work for East Riding?**

We really value our workers and it is our fundamental belief that our staff are the most important asset in fulfilling our responsibility to provide a quality service to children, young people and their families. We therefore want to invest in you and your development. We care about your career and will help you to identify your own goals and work with you to support you to achieve that within East Riding.

Our practitioners describe East Riding as ‘a family’; we really value our relationships with each other, with the families we support, and our partner agencies. We offer flexible working approaches because we want you to be able to enjoy your own family time and we know that this is important to our staff. We listen to what our practitioners are telling us and work hard to respond and make a difference - in East Riding we are so committed to this that we have Principal Practice Lead for our practitioners, who champion the frontline voice across the service.

**Our model of practice**

**Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’**

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this is set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities. Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

A well embedded model ensures we all have something to centre our practice on so that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for