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Healthy Family Support Practitioner - 0-19yrs in Epping Forest
| Posting date: | 18 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,459 to £30,222 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 March 2025 |
| Location: | Epping, Essex |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 20607 |
Summary
Healthy Family Support Practitioner – Full Time Vacancy Working with children and or Young People 0 - 19 years old and their families -Epping Forest
(Salary negotiable within banding)
About our service
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/
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, Family Hub Practitioners and Community Connectors.
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
We are looking for a practitioner who is experienced in working with children and or young people 0-19yrs and their families
0-5yrs
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 relating to children and young people and including child development.
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.
Applications are shortlisted by demonstrated 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 West Essex locality, working in and around the Epping Forest area.
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.
(Salary negotiable within banding)
About our service
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/
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, Family Hub Practitioners and Community Connectors.
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
We are looking for a practitioner who is experienced in working with children and or young people 0-19yrs and their families
0-5yrs
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 relating to children and young people and including child development.
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.
Applications are shortlisted by demonstrated 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 West Essex locality, working in and around the Epping Forest area.
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.
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