Early Help Practitioner

4 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester City Council Full time

**About The Role**:
Working Hours: 17.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Job Share/Permanent

Additional Payments: Essential Car Allowance

Closing Date:

- 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.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Early Help Practitioner to join our advice and guidance Early Help team. As an Early Help Practitioner, you will play a vital role in ensuring that children and their families receive the right level of support at the earliest possible stage to address emerging challenges and prevent further escalation.
- A key part of the Early Practitioner role is building a strength-based positive relationship with families while working alongside the Advice and Guidance Social Work Team (AGS) and the GMP District Safeguarding Team (DST). As the first port of call, we work directly with children and families to understand daily lived experience and support parents to improve outcomes for children. The work may include support around housing, debt, budgeting, accessing food banks or direct work around parenting (including young carers), behaviour management strategies and work around attachment and emotional dysregulation.

**Responsibilities***:

- Serve as the primary point of contact for agencies seeking advice and guidance regarding the needs of families in North Manchester and tailoring support to meet their needs using a child-centred approach.
- Assist offer support over the phone to others in completing the Early Help Assessment (EHA) utilizing a strengths-based approach.
- Challenge partner agencies in completing Early Help Assessments, ensuring that their work with children and families has a significant and sustained impact.
- 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).
- Experience in conducting assessments and providing support to children and families.
- Knowledge of multi-agency working and the safeguarding framework.
- Knowledge of various support areas such as housing, debt management, parenting, and behaviour management strategies.
- 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 ph

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