Start for Life Assistant Practitioner

Have you got experience of working with children, young people and families?

Are you passionate about supporting families to access great care working across a number of services?

Do you want to be part of a new service provided by a Trust rated outstanding by the CQC?

We’re seeking Assistant Practitioners to join us on a system wide pilot in Norfolk to improve the services we can collectively offer to children, young people and their families.

Norfolk Start for Life (SfL) allows families to access a variety of services through a single offer working with a range of partners, parents, and carers. Our goal is to launch an innovative workforce pilot to test the introduction of two new roles to work alongside existing health and care professionals and to support this being rolled out.

**You will**:
Be self-motivated, resilient and welcome new challenges.

Have experience of working with a number of different stakeholders.

Be Dedicated to providing excellent care and support.

Have fantastic interpersonal and communication skills, this project is all about working with and through people to improve the care we can provide for children, young people and their families.

Want to be part of, and provide input to this new innovative service.

**We will**:
Provide excellent training and development.

Give the opportunity to work with a Trust rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.

Consider Flexible working.

Provide access to a project that will directly improve the health outcomes for children and young people. We get values.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding - and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

Implement programmes of care (including advice) such as infant feeding support with or alongside maternity or Early Child and Family services (ECFS) to families with additional vulnerabilities, offering the SfL Assistant Practitioner (AP) a unique career development experience that allows for joint learning and the identification of novel ideas for shared delivery approaches

Supporting delivery of mandated key contacts such as 6-8 week contact and the 1 year review

Be supported by the SfL operational lead to ensure needs assessment of families are met.

Making a holistic assessment of the child(ren)’s developmental progress drawing on a range of facts or situations to analyse and agree levels of intervention required with caseload holder to optimise developmental and social/emotional progress.

Supporting families in providing an innovative and high-quality service in a community and system that enhances client care and promotes child and family wellbeing.

Act as first contact to parents in outreach locations ensuring a high standard of client care.

Liaise regularly with the SfL team and core workforce partners to assist in the co-ordination, development, and quality-improvement of the service.

Hold awareness of the increasing vulnerability of this defined project caseload.

Participate in regular management, clinical, safeguarding and group supervision and team training.

Always ensure safety and dignity of service users.

To promote the use of digital resources on Just One Norfolk to enhance self-care skills for children, young people, and their families.

To confidently utilise virtual platforms in assessments, interventions, training, and networking to support effective practice and partnership working.

To write clinical records in a concise, accurate and timely manner in line with Cambridgeshire Community Services record keeping policy.