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.