Early Help Family Support Practitioner

Remedy Social Work; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Our Client Hackney Council is looking for an Early Help Family Support Practitioner to join their Team.

Purpose of the post:

To work as part of a team of Early Help Family Practitioners to deliver interventions as part of a wider, multi-agency system, in order to provide intense support to families with multiple and complex needs. To deliver child-centred holistic family assessments using a range of evidence-based tools to identify adverse childhood experiences and factors impacting on family functioning, in order to increase resilience, parenting capacity and promote good child and parent attachment to support child outcomes. To respond resourcefully to families at risk of poor outcomes at the earliest opportunity, making full use of community resources and settings to support children to achieve a good level of development and reduce family isolation in order to sustain outcomes.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

1. To work as an Early Help Family Practitioner in accordance with the Hackney Family Support Practice Guidance and Multi-Agency Team protocol.
2. To promote an environment that safeguards and protects children and takes responsibility for ensuring that appropriate safeguarding procedures are adhered to.
3. To provide structured and individual support to children and families using the appropriate assessment tools, such as Hackney's Early Help Assessment Form, to create an individual plan with agreed outcomes, targets and review dates.
4. To act as lead professional for individual families to coordinate and share information at MAT Meetings and to support and lead on team around the child meetings.
5. To support parents/carers in the care of their child through targeted work in the home, group work and coordinated services and activities; and support with barriers such as housing and financial matters that impact on parenting.
6. To coordinate and deliver parenting groups to support parents/carers to develop an understanding of their child's needs and strengthen their parenting skills.