Healthy Family Support Practitioner 0-5 years

Healthy Family Support Practitioner 0-5yrs (14579)

Healthy Family Support Practitioner Working with children pre-birth to 5yrs in Loughton, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill area.

Salary negotiable within banding

22.5hrs a week paid pro rata

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.

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)

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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 babies under 5yrs and their families as this role will be predominantly working with the pre-birth - 5 years age range and their families.

• 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

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
• 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 Loughton, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill 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 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 at

WORKPLACE OFFER: WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. 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, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

Flexibility

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.

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.