Early Help Co-ordinator - Manchester, United Kingdom - Oldham Council

Oldham Council
Oldham Council
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Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Manchester City Council
***Working Hours: 35 Hours per week

Contract Type:
Full time / Temporary (12 Months)

Additional Payments:
Essential car user allowance

Closing Date: 4 April 2024

  • Knowledge of database systems and reporting.
  • Essential Car Documentation
  • This post is a designated Essential Car User. Therefore, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use at work. You will receive the Essential Car User Allowance.
  • A good understanding of early help provision (including national guidance and statutory responsibilities) and experience of working in partnership with service leaders, practitioners and colleagues supporting early help.
  • We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Early Help Coordinator to join our front door service. As an Early Help Coordinator you will work as part of the front door management team delivering support to the team, families and other partners across North Manchester. This includes leading on partnership support to agencies in North Manchester.
  • The Early Help Hubs are vibrant and comprise of multidisciplinary teams including Duty and Assessment Social Workers, Early Help, Police and many partners from different sectors.
  • A key part of the role is around screening referrals made to early help and working alongside the Advice and Guidance Social work team (AGS), and the GMP District safeguarding team to ensure that child safeguarding concerns are assessed and managed prior to and during early help intervention.
  • In addition to this you will be leading a team that offer support in relation to the EHA (Early Help Assessment) as well as signposting to and partnering with other agencies to enhance the preventative offer within different setting. This includes the mapping of agencies offering support in and around each area of need. This could also include partnering with agencies for the delivery of the EHA to support schools to enhance there Early Help offer.
  • Our aim is to ensure children, young people and their families receive the right level of support, as early as possible, to tackle emerging problems and prevent issues from escalating by screening referrals and exploring whether early help is the right service.
  • Part of the Coordinators role is building a strengthbased positive relationship with staff and families. This involves working in partnership with staff, families and partners to identify what support needs to be in place to support and encourage sustainable change.
  • The Coordinator will support practitioners to work directly with children and young people to understand daily lived experience and support parents to improve outcomes for children. The work may include support around CCE, CSE, Domestic abuse, housing, debt, budgeting, accessing food banks or direct work around parenting, behaviour management strategies and work around attachment and emotional dysregulation.
  • The focus of early help is to improve family functioning and build the family's own capability to deal effectively with challenges, within a structured evidence based framework to deliver high quality support and intervention to children.
  • The Coordinator will manage a team of staff and provide support, challenge and manager oversight to try to provide the best outcomes for children and their families.
  • A minimum of two years' experience in a similar role or have skills that can be transferred
  • Knowledge of legislation, and policy around child safeguarding
  • Provide effective, quality and professional management and supervision
  • Support Practitioners to engage with support services provided by both statutory and voluntary agencies
  • Build effective, professional relationships with staff, children and families and partners
  • Lead and support the team to understand factors that impact children and knowledge of ACEs
  • Lead and undertake supervisions and manage attendance
  • Lead on work with partner agencies to effectively support the whole family.
  • Lead or take part in a number of meetings including DACC, AGS dropins and the Engage panel
  • Have a professional, efficient, friendly, and caring approach to supporting staff
  • Be an excellent team member, having good time management, able to prioritise workload, multitask and be flexible across their workday
  • Have extensive knowledge around the early help assessments, assessing risk and can support staff to get the best outcomes


We're the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone.

We're proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.


When you join us, you're joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality.

Whatever your role, you'll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer
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