Early Help Practitioner - Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom - Akton Recruitment

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1 month ago

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Kensington and Chelsea
£24/hr


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ASAP


AKTON recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for an experienced Early Help Practitioner in the Kensington and Chelsea area.

Immediate start months contract. Enhanced DBS required for this role.

To provide holistic support to a caseload of families,

Undertake whole family assessments, coordinate network meetings and undertake regular reviews with families. and partner agencies.

Ensure that parents, children and young people's views are captured and included in plans.

To work in partnership with other services regarding the support for families (e.g. Schools, Children's Social Care, Health Visiting, CAMHS etc)

To deliver parenting interventions both on a one-to-one and group work basis.

Prioritise cases and summarise progress in preparation for supervision and other panel meetings.


To make sure assessments and plans for families are leading to clear outcomes and that those outcomes are captured at review and closure of a case.


To liaise with social workers regarding cases that have emerging safeguarding issues and where pieces of joint work have been identified.

Ensure that assessments and plans are holistic and look to identify strengths and needs across a family and cover a wide range of areas including (but not exhaustive) health, risky behaviour, school attendance/behaviour/achievement, troubled families criteria and parenting needs


Closely monitor cases where there is poor school attendance to ensure parents are aware of their legal responsibilities to have their children in full time education.

In these circumstances Early Help Practitioners are expected to work in close partnership with the school and agree a plan to improve attendance with the family which is reviewed regularly.

Where cases of poor school attendance fail to improve consult with line manager to consider a referral for prosecution and prepare necessary paperwork/witness testimony

Ensure case notes are concise, accurate, outcome focused and reflect the current status of a case.

Compile reports/case studies for meetings, audits or inspections

To be fully aware of child protection
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