Early Help Coordinator | 7567 | fixed term contract/secondment opportunity for 12 months | 37 hours per week | £36,124 to £37,938 per annum | (Grade I) | North Norfolk
Are you ambitious about early help & prevention? Do you have experience of supporting families to access the right pathways to support? Are you a good collaborator and able to work alongside others as well as passionate about supporting the workforce to help families and children?
About Us
2025 is an exciting time to join Norfolk County Council Childrens Services following a recent highly successful Ofsted inspection and the launch of our School and Community teams & Family Hubs approach. We want children, young people, and their families in Norfolk to receive support at the earliest opportunity so that they can flourish. By acting together, as a prevention and early help system, we can enable more families to receive the right support, at the right time.
This new model will mean we can build on the fantastic work already taking place, building skills and capacity to ensure we support children, young people, and families at the earliest opportunity.
Family Hubs will work predominantly with those families that require early help. The teams working practices will be rooted within our core ways of working and vital signs through relationship-based practice using Signs of Safety, Solihull, Communities of Practice, Joint Agency Group Supervision, Restorative working and Family Networking.
About The Role
We are seeking an experienced Early Help Coordinator to join us on a secondment (internal candidates) or fixed term basis (external candidates) for 12 months with potential for this post to become permanent.
You Will Be Required To
* Work alongside Team Managers to support the decision making that leads to supportive responses to children & families. Exploring where Social Care or Universal Services can play a role in supporting a family or team around that family through an Early Help Assessment and Plan (EHAP) and Family Networking Approach.
* Work in partnership with a range of organisations across Family Hubs, from education and health providers to district councils and voluntary sector groups to coordinate seamless support pathways for children, young people and families.
* Ensure connection between services in ways that make sense for children and families, joining up pathways so that they only have to tell their story once and their service experience is smoother and more aligned.
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.
For further information about the role, please contact Melanie Perry on 01603 306286.
We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.
Redeployment closing date: 31 March 2025
All other applicants closing date: 14 April 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr