Senior Early Help Practitioner LBS-011

Job Description

Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified
Client Location : Queens Road 1, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week :36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :09:00
End Time :17:00
Salary: £23.87

Experience
8. Significant experience of complex whole family direct work with children and their families within an early help context, in addition to formulating and implementing effective intervention plans with families
9. Experience of using persistence, tenacity and flexibility to engage families who may be reluctant to accept the need for help
10.Experience of leading practice developments in work with families and driving evidence based practice within a team and with stakeholders
11. Experience of supervising, training and managing staff undertaking whole family work
12. Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context to support vulnerable families.

Experienced Early Help Practitioners are required to join the Family Help and Support Team tenable as soon as possible. Candidates must be able to work five days per week, Monday to Friday in person. The Family Help and Support team works in partnership and collaboration as part of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub to ensure that children, young people, families receive an effective service response at the first point of contact with early help.

The work is varied and challenging requiring the ability to work within tight deadlines and multi task to respond to the needs of families. The role will involve carrying out early help enquiries from MASH, progressing help and support requests to secure access to services and undertaking immediate help visits to support families where appropriate. This will involve substantial contact with social care, early help teams, universal and community resources
As an experienced practitioner you will deliver an ‘outstanding’ Family Early Help Service as part of Southwark’s Children & Families Directorate, driving best practice in whole family work in a systemically informed way.
Provide specialist knowledge on early intervention best practice, leading on key areas for outcome based interventions (such as Troubled Families risk factors) and drive practice within and across the early help system
Lead on work with families where children have been identified as at risk of poor outcomes
and provide early help for emerging problems in order to improve impact, engage families
better and avoid escalation to higher levels of statutory intervention
Support continued progress of families who have ‘stepped down’ from statutory work and
work with a high level of complexity
Act as a lead professional and work with all family members to assess their needs and
develop a whole family plan to achieve agreed outcomes that promote the safeguarding
of children, attendance at school and positive citizenship
Work directly with children and families and actively engage them in sustainable change
within the resources available, enforcing positive parenting responsibility through a twin
track approach of high challenge and high support.