Healthy Family Support Practitioner - Harlow, United Kingdom - Barnardos

Barnardos

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Harlow, United Kingdom

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Healthy Family Support Practitioner - Full Time VacancyWorkingwithchildren
- 19 years old andtheirfamilies**:

Harlow District
West
Essexarea**
(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 West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.

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 or Delivery 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 Harlow 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.

WORKPLACE OFFER:
WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU
The world of work has changed.

We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working.

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand ourworkplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one o