Healthy Family Support Practitioner 5-19yrs Full

**Healthy Family Support Practitioner - Full Time Vacancy**Workingwithchildren**5 - 19 years old and**theirfamilies**:

- Harlow District - West**Essex**area**

**Salary negotiable within banding**

**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 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)

**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 Harlow 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.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent,hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, wh