Family Help Lead Practitioner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Ionawr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 Chwefror 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Tameside, M43 7RA |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75679044 |
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Contract Type: Permanent and fixed term contract (until 31st October 2026)
Contract Reason: Vacancies and secondment cover
Secondment Opportunity: Permanent employees are encouraged to apply and will be supported as part of our workforce development commitment.
Salary: Grade F. Scale 17 £30,060 to Scale 22 - £32,654
Hours per Week: 36
Base Location: Greenside Lane, Droylsden, M43 7RA, School Crescent, Ridge Hill, Stalybridge, SK15 1EA, Flowery Centre, Old Road, Hyde, SK14 4SQ or Trafalgar Square, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL7 0LL
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Early Help Service; we are seeking to recruit a number of experienced, enthusiastic, motivated Family Help Lead Practitioners, to work across the continuum of need, who are passionate about meeting children’s needs and seeking great outcomes for children and their families.
As part of the team, you will work flexibly across 7 days on a rota basis, working between the hours of 8am to 8pm daily. You will also be required to link closely with the emergency duty team.
The role is to coordinate services and deliver evidence based interventions to families experiencing multiple and complex issues throughout the continuum of need. The successful candidate will take a whole family approach and work across services to effect real change for families. The successful candidate will be expected to take a lead or key role in working with families. They will work in partnership with a range of agencies to ensure the best outcomes are achieved for children and young people.
About you
Candidates must have excellent communication skills which will enable them to undertake effective family engagement which builds on a family’s strength and coping strategies. This will incorporate a strong degree of challenge to enable families to change by supporting and enabling them to resolve multiple and complex difficulties leading to sustainable change.
The Early Help service has a strong ethos of working in a multiagency environment, developing and maintaining strong professional relationships with partner agencies to ensure services can support positive and lasting change with families.
A strong knowledge and experience of assess, plan, do, and review to ensure quality provision is provided to families while using a restorative approach to planning interventions as a part of a multi-agency approach. This will require you to undertake the lead professional role with some families’ whist supporting other agencies where they are lead professional.
Why work for us?
In return, we offer a competitive salary, a minimum of 26 days leave (plus 8 bank holidays), 36 hours working week. Membership of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, which is a Local Government Pension Scheme and much more.
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. .
We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
If you believe you meet the essential criteria for this role we would like to hear from you.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 5197 / joanne.allcock@tameside.gov.uk or 0161 342 3239 / liz.mandiyanike@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: DPT561
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