Healthy Family Support Practitioner 5-19yrs 37hrs

**About our service**

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (ECFWS) brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System.

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 orDelivery 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)

We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced practitioner to join our Healthy Family Team.
Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Support Practitioners, Support Assistants and Community Engagement workers.

**Healthy Family Support Practitioner 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 young people as this role will be predominantly working with the 5 - 19 age range and their families.

**5 - 19 (25 SEND)**
Working in an integrated team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme:

- 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

Full details of role and responsibilities are detailed within the Job Description attached.

**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 Epping Forest 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 NHS guidelines and to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirementsintroduced by the Government/NHS.

WORKPLACE OFFER: WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand ourworkplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

Flexibility
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.

About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment processfor this role.