Children's Services Practitioner - Blackpool, United Kingdom - NSPCC

NSPCC

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Blackpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. It drives us.

And it's the reason our Children's Services team push themselves to transform the lives of children and families - in person, in service centres nationwide, and through the knowledge they share.

Join us as an Early Years Children's Services Practitioner and make a contribution that means everything.

About Blackpool Better Start

There are many obstacles to healthy development for our children which can lead to poorer outcomes for them.

The role of Blackpool Better Start is to ensure that our communities are supported to make positive changes in their parenting, take care of their children's needs, and help children achieve their full potential.

The Blackpool Better Start Partnership is one of five locations in the UK to receive funding from the National Lottery Community Fund to support initiatives in early intervention and prevention for the early years.

The partnership brings together the NSPCC, Blackpool Council, NHS health organisations, Police, local parents and community organisations to collaboratively make the sustainable changes needed within services and systems supporting early years to ensure every baby has the best start in life.

About Blackpool Centre for Early Child Development

Blackpool Centre for Early Child Development (CECD) is the engine room of the Better Start Partnership, the Centre ensures that the vision and ambition of the partnership is translated into action and results.

The Centre gives leadership and strategic direction to the partnership and ensures that all partners are actively engaged in the delivery and co-production of services.

The Centre is a multidisciplinary team which includes, Programme and Community Development, Research and Evaluation, Communications, Business Support and Data Management.

The centre is building local capacity and expertise by ensuring the latest knowledge and processes are adopted in Blackpool and the learning of what works then cascaded nationally and internationally.

The Centre is responsible for the design, developmentand implementation of a range of evidence-based programmes and community-based initiatives on behalf of the Better Start Partnership.

The Centre commissions and delivers a range of initiatives which support families in relation to Diet and Nutrition, Speech Language and Communication and Social and Emotional Development.

As an Early Years Children's Services Practitioner you will play a key role within the team, planning and delivering high quality universal and targeted community activities and provision that promotes early child development outcomes and increases parents understanding of how their child develops and how they can best support this through the home learning environment.

You will be able to demonstrate experience of working with young children and their families in an early years, social care, health, or community setting and have an appropriate qualification in health and social care, child care or early years child care at NVQ Level 3 or Diploma level

You will also be able to engage with service users, and have experience of working alongside families or communities, including involving them in planning and decision making.

Join us and you'll become part of a team that cares about the work they do and the people they work with.

You'll discover opportunities to grow, along with challenges and a shared purpose that'll bring the best out in you.

And you'll get to find your own way to make a difference that means more, and that impacts millions of young lives.