Healthy Family Support Practitioner – Full Time Vacancy Working with children and or Young People 0 - 19 years old and their families - in Harlow
About our service
The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services (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)
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 and or young people 0-19yrs and their families.
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.
5 – 19 (25 SEND)
* 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 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.
Applications are shortlisted by demonstrated experience aligned to the Person Specification. When completing your application, please ensure that you include as much detail as possible and reference your experience to reflect the person specification.
This role is based in the West Essex locality, working in and around the Harlow area.
(Salary negotiable within banding)
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 – angela.cameron@barnardos.org.uk.
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 distancing rules as highlighted in NHS guidelines. Successful applicants will be required to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirements introduced by the Government/NHS.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
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