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Healthy Family Support Practitioner – Full-Time Vacancy Working with children and or Young People 5- 9 years old and their families -in The Brentwood Area

We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced 5-19 yrs practitioner to join our Healthy Family Team.
Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Support Practitioners, Family Hub Practitioners and Community Connectors.

0-19yrs 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 co-operatively 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

0-5yrs on occasions

Working in an integrated team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme
Supporting the delivery of Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting programme (MECSH)
Promoting first relationships and attachment
Promotion of the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI)
Providing universal and targeted support to families through delivery of group sessions
Working in partnership with individuals and their families to achieve positive outcomes
Deliver evidenced based parenting support to all families
Providing evidence-based interventions with families to support their children to become School Ready and meet age appropriate levels of development
Organising and undertaking Integrated two-year reviews in partnership with the family and the child's Early years setting
To participate in and deliver ECFWS virtual sessions to ensure all families are reached and have meaningful contact and achievable outcomes
To make contact with families where parental conflict has been identified as a ‘risk' factor, providing brief intervention support and advice
Participating and leading on health promotion activities in the family hubs and delivery sites or at external venues and events

5 – 19 (25 SEND)

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 6-19 with a view to minimising harm and building the resilience of children and young people.
To work in an empowering way to develop self-confidence, 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 3

have experience of working with children within School, Home and community settings

Confident when delivering advice and support to Parents and Carers

Have a good understanding of accurate recording

Have a sound knowledge of GDPR

have experience and empathy when building relationships with vulnerable children and adults.

Applications are shortlisted by demonstrating experience aligned to the Person Specification. When completing your application, please ensure that you include as much detail as possible and reference your experience to reflect the person specification.

This role is based in the South Essex locality, working in and around the Stansted, Dunmow and Saffron Walden areas.

Please ensure you read the attached Job Description and if you have any further questions regarding this position please contact
Emily Nye or Dawn Hodges

As per NHS guidance this role may 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 and to follow social distancing rules as highlighted in NHS guidelines. Successful applicants will be required to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirements introduced by the Government/NHS.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

More about us

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

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 0-19 (25 SEND)

For further details about our service, visit our website on www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk

or you can watch our new all about us video using the below link.

https://essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk/about-us/

Pay & Reward Framework

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 was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

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 our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
Service related sick pay from day 1
Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
Cycle2work scheme
Interest free season ticket loans
Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
20% discount at Barnardo's stores
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values