Healthy Family Support Assistant

**Healthy Family Support Assistant - West Essex - Loughton, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill area**
**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 West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.

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 or Delivery 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)

**The Position: Healthy Family Support Assistant**

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service are seeking a passionate and dedicated professional to join our team as a Healthy Family Support Assistant (HFSA).

The HFSA will report to an allocated Health Visitor/School Nurse who will in turn report to the Healthy Family Team Leader. The post-holder will be employed by Barnardo's; however the post-holder will be managed by a Team Leader employed by Barnardo's or Virgin Care as part of a matrix management system.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Under guidance and instruction:

- To work with children, young people and their families, within a group setting, 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 with families to promote School Readiness and provide interventions that support children to achieve.
- To plan, deliver and evaluate group based interventions for children and families.
- 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.
- To contribute to Service development.
- The HFSA may be responsible for supporting and supervising volunteers within the service.

**Essential requirements for the role**
- Qualification S/NVQ2 for staff assisting and working alongside other staff in work with children, young people and vulnerable adults and for staff having sole and direct access to children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- The requirement will be to work towards S/NVQ 3.
- Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children and young people and families (e.g. disadvantage, poverty, disability).
- Awareness of children's need to feel safe

**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 Loughton, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill 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 will also require the successful applicant to wear PPE including the wearing of a protective mask, to follow social distancing rules as stated within the current NHS guidelines and to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirements introduced by the Government/NHS._

Please ensure you read the attached Job Description and if you have any further questions regarding this position please contact

Angela Cameron - Deputy Head of Service

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 process for this role.