0-5yrs Healthy Family Support Practitioner

**Healthy Family Support Practitioner - Full Time Vacancy Working with children 0 - 5 years old and their families in Harlow.**- ** About our service**
- The Essex **Child** and **Family** Wellbeing **Service**s (ECFWS) brings **together** a range of existing **services**, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board.
- 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)- or you can watch our new all about us video using the below link.
- **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, Family Hub Practitioners and Community Connectors.**
- **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** children in their early stages of life including supporting families in the antenatal period.- 0-5yrs- Working in an integrated team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme
- Supporting the delivery of Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting programme (MECSH)
- Promoting first relationships and attachment
- Promotion of the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI)
- Providing universal and targeted support to families through delivery of group sessions
- Working in partnership with individuals and their families to achieve positive outcomes
- Deliver evidenced based parenting support to all families
- Providing evidence-based interventions with families to support their children to become School Ready and meet age appropriate levels of development
- Organising and undertaking Integrated two-year reviews in partnership with the family and the child's Early years setting
- To participate in and deliver ECFWS virtual sessions to ensure all families are reached and have meaningful contact and achievable outcomes
- To make contact with families where parental conflict has been identified as a ‘risk' factor, providing brief intervention support and advice
- Participating and leading on health promotion activities in the family hubs and delivery sites or at external venues and events- 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 relating to children and young people and including child development.
- 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.
- 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
- As per NHS guidance this role may 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 and to follow social