3-Month Contract with a Local Authority
Summary
* Join our team as an Early Help Family Practitioner, where you will play a crucial role in delivering interventions within a multi-agency system. Your work will provide intense support to families with multiple and complex needs. You will conduct child-centered holistic family assessments using evidence-based tools to identify adverse childhood experiences and factors impacting family functioning. Your efforts will aim to increase resilience, enhance parenting capacity, and promote strong child-parent attachments to support positive child outcomes.
Responsibilities
* Serve as an Early Help Family Practitioner following the Hackney Family Support Practice Guidance and Multi-Agency Team protocol.
* Foster an environment that safeguards children, ensuring adherence to appropriate safeguarding procedures.
* Provide structured and individualized support to children and families using assessment tools like Hackney’s Early Help Assessment Form, and create individual plans with agreed outcomes, targets, and review dates.
* Act as the lead professional for families, coordinating and sharing information at MAT Meetings, and leading team meetings around the child.
* Support parents/carers through targeted home work, group activities, and coordinated services, addressing barriers such as housing and financial issues.
* Coordinate and deliver parenting groups to help parents/carers understand their child’s needs and enhance their parenting skills.
Requirements
* Significant experience working with children and families.
* Experience providing parenting support and delivering parenting programs, groups, or forums to vulnerable families with complex needs.
* Experience offering advice, information, and guidance to families to build resilience and capacity.
* Experience with a child-centered and outcomes-based approach in work with children and families.
* Experience visiting and delivering interventions in family homes.
Essential Qualifications
* Minimum Level 3 qualification in childcare & education, primary education, work with parents, health, or social work.
* Level 4 Award in Work with Parents.
Additional Information
* Enhanced DBS required for the role.
The role closes on 19th March 2026, apply ASAP.