Early Help Partnership Officer
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade 5 (SCP18 £31,537 SCP23 £34,434)
Hours: 36.66
Based: Within the North West targeted early help district team
Closing date: Friday 21st November 2025
Role overview
Working within a District Targeted Early Help Team, you will support the delivery of an effective multi-agency Early Help offer through providing expert advice, assistance and training to a wide range of partners. The post helps to ensure that children and families access the right support at the earliest opportunity.
Key responsibilities
1. To provide advice and support to universal service key partners to enable them to deliver the multi-agency Early Help offer. This includes delivering training on Family Help Assessments, providing advice and support on the Team Around the Family offer available for children and families and role modelling good practice.
1. To organise and facilitate multi-agency Early Help conversations in the district, including working with partners to identify families who would benefit from multi-agency Early Help support.
1. To develop and maintain detailed knowledge of the services and local resources in the District, in order to help children and families access these to become more embedded in their communities and become less reliant on services.
1. To develop and maintain strong working relationships with professionals in a wide range of services delivering services and support to children and families.
Key Requirements
To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:
* Experience of using assessment tools to identify the needs of families which will inform bespoke plans and appropriate interventions
* Experience of delivering training, support or advice to other professionals
* Experience of working effectively in partnership with professionals from different disciplines, such as schools, health services and the voluntary sector
* Experience of working in a team, supporting each other to achieve team objectives and sharing learning opportunities
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If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About us
We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:
A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.
We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.
Our values and behaviours
By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.
We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:
* Work with a resident focus
* Support local leaders
* Committed to the borough
* Delivery high performance
* Take ownership and drive change
You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page
Our benefits package
At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:
* 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
* The option to purchase additional annual leave.
* An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
* Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active .
* Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
* Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
* Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
* Staff recognition and celebration events.
* Peer support groups
Inclusive recruitment
We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.
If you’re an applicant with disabilities, aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you’ve participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme .
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Important information
Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.
Closing date: 21st November 2025