Senior Early Help Worker

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**Senior Early Help Worker**

**Role Responsibility**

An exciting opportunity has become available to work within Gravesham Children Centres, as part of KCC Integrated Children’s Services. We provide universal and targeted support for children and families aged 0-8 within our Children centres.

Kent Children’s Centres offer early years sessions to support learning through play, using the EYFS as the guidance for supporting development. We welcome families, providing health services, training opportunities and parenting support. The centres are placed at the heart of communities to enable parents to access the help they need and provide the best start in life for their young children.

About You:

- Be passionate about changing outcomes for children and young people.
- Have good communication skills to engage children and young people and families to participate in Open Access services. This will include working with parents, and you will demonstrate the ability to establish warm, respectful, and supportive relationships with children across all age groups along with their parents, families, and carers.
- A team player as well as able to work on own initiative.
- Have knowledge of safeguarding and relevant legislation.
- Ability to work in partnership across a range of providers including Health, Schools, and voluntary organisations.
- You will have a base; however, you will be required to work across the sites and the District as required.

In return, you will join established teams and work with supportive colleagues and have access to a workforce development plan for your professional growth. Join us

The job role requires you to be mobile with the ability to travel in a timely and flexible manner across the wide geographical area throughout the county of Kent and is essential for carrying out the duties of this post.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Closing date: Tuesday 14th March 2023

Interviews: Tuesday 21st March 2023 TBC

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