Healthy Family Support Practitioner – Full Time Vacancy Working with children 0 - 5 years old and their families in Uttlesford
About our service
The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services (ECFWS) brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board.
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, Family Hub Practitioners and Community Connectors.
Healthy Family Support Practitioner Role
1. 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 children in their early stages of life including supporting families in the antenatal period.
0-5yrs
2. Working in an integrated team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme
3. Supporting the delivery of Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting programme (MECSH)
4. Promoting first relationships and attachment
5. Promotion of the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI)
6. Providing universal and targeted support to families through delivery of group sessions
7. Working in partnership with individuals and their families to achieve positive outcomes
8. Deliver evidenced based parenting support to all families
9. Providing evidence-based interventions with families to support their children to become School Ready and meet age appropriate levels of development
10. Organising and undertaking Integrated two-year reviews in partnership with the family and the child's Early years setting
11. To participate in and deliver ECFWS virtual sessions to ensure all families are reached and have meaningful contact and achievable outcomes
12. To make contact with families where parental conflict has been identified as a ‘risk' factor, providing brief intervention support and advice
13. 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
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Qualification mandatory for practice –A minimum NVQ Level 3 relating to children and young people and including child development.
15. 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.
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–
As per NHS guidance this role may 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 and to follow social distancing rules as highlighted in NHS guidelines. Successful applicants will be required to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirements introduced by the Government/NHS.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . 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 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.
Benefits
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.
16. 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.
17. 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
18. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
19. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
20. Service related sick pay from day 1
21. 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
22. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
23. Cycle2work scheme
24. Interest free season ticket loans
25. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
26. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
27. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
28. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
29. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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