About the Service
The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (ECFWS) brings together a range of existing services and is jointly commissioned by Essex County Council and the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.
The service is delivered by HCRG Care Group, in partnership with Barnardo's, and is designed to ensure families have easy access to local support. Staff work flexibly within the community, delivering services from Family Hubs and Delivery Sites, Early Years settings, schools, and family homes.
This innovative “services without walls” approach ensures that children and families who need support the most are reached quickly and effectively.
Areas of Support
The service delivers support across the following areas:
1. Health Visiting
2. Parenting Support
3. School Nursing
4. Family Health
5. Resilience and Child Development
6. Support for children and young people aged 0–19 (up to 25 for SEND)
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About the Role
We are looking to recruit a Healthy Family Support Practitioner to join our prebirth- 5 year team in the Tendring area.
The successful candidate will have skills and experience working with children aged 0-5, alongside experience in family support, and will demonstrate a strong commitment to improving outcomes for children and families.
Key Responsibilities
Healthy Family Support Practitioners work with children, young people (pre‑birth to 19, or up to 25 for SEND) and their parents/carers, both individually and in groups, to:
7. Increase skills, confidence, and resilience
8. Support families to live safely and positively
9. Identify needs and deliver effective, outcome‑focused interventions
Work will take place in family homes, community settings, and group environments, using a variety of evidence‑based approaches.
Practitioners provide both universal and targeted intensive support, aligned to service outcomes. This includes using age‑appropriate, evidence‑informed frameworks (for example, the Early Years Foundation Stage) to plan and deliver high‑quality services that:
10. Support parents/carers
11. Enable children to thrive and reach their full potential
12. Promote school readiness
Application Information
When completing your application, please clearly demonstrate how your skills, knowledge, and experience meet the Person Specification, Job Description, and Additional Information document (where applicable), with an understanding of the service context outlined above.
Please note:
Due to the high volume of applications, this vacancy may close early. We strongly encourage early applications.
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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.
Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)
13. 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.
14. 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
15. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
16. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
17. Service related sick pay from day 1
18. 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
19. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
20. Cycle2work scheme
21. Interest free season ticket loans
22. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
23. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
24. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
25. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
26. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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