Band 4 Assistant Practitioner jobs

Healthy Family Support Practitioner – Full Time Vacancy Working with children 5 - 19 years old and their families - Uttlesford District - West Essex area

Salary negotiable within banding

About our service

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (ECFWS) brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System.

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.

For further details about our service, visit our website on www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk

or you can watch our new all about us video using the below link.

https://essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk/about-us/

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, Support Assistants and Community Engagement workers.

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 young people as this role will be predominantly working with the 5 - 19 age range and their families.

5 – 19 (25 SEND)
Working in an integrated team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme ·

• 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.

• 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 Uttlesford area.

As per NHS guidance this role will 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, to follow social distancing rules as stated within NHS guidelines and to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirements introduced by the Government/NHS.

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

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

• T&C's apply based on contract