Family Help Practitioner
Job description
Passionate about working with children and families?
Be at the heart of our transformation journey and enable earlier intervention and better outcomes for families in North East Lincolnshire.
Join a service that empowers you, supports you and values your skills.
Family Help Practitioner – Kinship Zone
About the role
Join North East Lincolnshire Council’s Children’s Services at an exciting time of transformation.
As a Family Help Practitioner, you will deliver high-quality, relationship-based support to children, young people and families, helping to prevent escalation into statutory services and enabling families to thrive.
Working as part of a supportive and ambitious team, you’ll play a key role within our Kinship offer, supporting families to stay safely together while contributing to innovative approaches to early help and intervention.
What will my day look like?
No two days are the same in this role. You’ll spend your time building strong, trusting relationships with children, young people and their families, offering practical support, guidance and evidence-based interventions tailored to their needs.
You’ll manage a varied caseload, completing assessments and working alongside families to develop meaningful plans that focus on their strengths and goals. A key part of your role will involve contributing to Family Network Meetings and Family Group Conferences, ensuring families are supported to find solutions that work for them.
Alongside this, you’ll deliver targeted interventions on both a one-to-one and group basis, including supporting young carers to balance their responsibilities while maintaining their own wellbeing and aspirations. You’ll work closely with colleagues and partner agencies, ensuring a joined-up approach that achieves the best possible outcomes.
About the Kinship Zone
North East Lincolnshire is one of a select number of areas chosen by the Department for Education to deliver a national Kinship Zone pilot.
This programme is focused on strengthening support for kinship families and preventing children from entering care by testing new and innovative approaches. As part of this, you’ll contribute to shaping services, improving stability for children and ensuring families receive the right support at the right time.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of something innovative, impactful and forward-thinking, while helping families build brighter, more stable futures.
We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.
For more information, please refer to the attached role profile or email Harriet Malkin - Deputy Service Director:
As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.
You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform.
This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.
NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.
In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:
1. At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)
2. You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses)
3. References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position
Do you need support?
If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.
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