Healthy Family Support Practitioner - Epping, United Kingdom - Barnardos

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Full Time Vacancy Working with children years old and their families - Epping Forest District - West Essex area

Salary negotiable within banding

About our service

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (ECFWS) brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System.


The service, which is provided by HCRG Care Group in partnership with Barnardo's, ensures that families continue to have easy access to local services, with staff able to reach children and families in the community; whether in one of our Family Hubs orDelivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a family's home.

This flexible and innovative new way of working is about providing services without walls and ensuring those families who need support the most are easily reached.


Broad areas of support and service delivery are:

  • Health Visiting
  • Parenting Support
  • School Nursing
  • Family Health
  • Resilience and Child Development
  • Support for ages SEND)
We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced practitioner to join our Healthy Family Team.
Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Support Practitioners, Support Assistants and Community Engagement workers.

Healthy Family Support Practitioner Role

  • To work with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.
  • To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
  • To work cooperatively with children's services, health agencies and other community based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.
  • Undertake developmental and health reviews of children and young people at key stages of their life
  • We are looking for a practitioner who is experienced in working with young people as this role will be predominantly working with the age range and their families.
SEND)

Working in an integrated team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme:

  • To make contact with families where parental conflict has been identified as a 'risk' factor, providing brief intervention support and advice
  • Provide Coaching and Skills training to young people and their parents to support the development of emotional literacy and overall wellbeing
  • To Deliver Educational sessions to Parents, Children and Young People adapting style and content to meet the audience.
  • To work in partnership with other specialist providers in providing dedicated support to families of children aged 619 with a view to minimising harm and building the resilience of children and young people.
  • To work in an empowering way to develop selfconfidence, self esteem and emotional wellbeing within families
  • Support the development of Health Family hubs and Delivery sites as sanctuaries for families fleeing domestic abuse
  • Full details of role and responsibilities are detailed within the Job Description attached.

Essential requirements for the role

  • Qualification mandatory for practice A minimum NVQ Level
  • Can demonstrate some experience of working with children and young people
  • Able to establish a rapport and build respectful, trusting, honest and supportive relationships
  • Able to observe and recognise child, young person or family's behaviour, understand its context and respond to concerns about developmental or behavioural changes.
  • A valid driving licence and use of a car is essential for this role.
This role is based in the West Essex locality, working in and around the Epping Forest area.


As per NHS guidance this role will require successful applicants to evidence immunisations or immunity for MMR and Chicken Pox.

This is due to the clinical focus of some tasks and the requirement to work with vulnerable families, young people and children.


The roles within this service may also require the successful applicant to wear PPE including the wearing of a protective mask, to follow social distancing rules as stated within NHS guidelines and to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirementsintroduced by the Government/NHS.


Please ensure you read the attached Job Description and if you have any further questions regarding this position, please contact Angela Cameron - Deputy Head of service.


We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.

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 should be in place by 1st April 2023.

This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & CultureStrategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's.
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