Family Help Lead Practitioner
| Posting date: | 21 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2025 |
| Location: | Tameside, OL7 0LL |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75703863 |
Summary
Contract Type: Fixed term contract (until 31/03/2026)
Contract Reason: Maternity 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: North Family Hub, Trafalgar Square, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL7 0LL
Assessment Date: 13th June 2025
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Early Help Service; we are seeking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic, motivated Family Help Lead Practitioner, to work across the continuum of need, who are passionate about meeting children’s needs and seeking great outcomes for children and their families.
The successful candidate will be expected to support the Team Manager with the efficient and effective delivery of the STARS Model within Tameside. Using reflective practice and compassion focused therapy, you will identify needs and coordinate intensive support for pregnant women and their partners at the earliest opportunity. You will be working on a plan with midwifery, health and adults to prevent the risks of repeated removals of children and effect real change. This role will be case managing referred women (and partners) and supporting them to effect changes and engage with the pre-birth assessment.
As part of the team, you will work flexibly over 7 days, working between the hours of 8am to 8pm where required.
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.
About Us
Message from Jill Colbert, Director of Children’s Services
“I joined the council at the beginning of 2025 and was instantly charmed by the warmth, openness, and energy of colleagues.
“I came to Tameside for one reason; because I know we can do fantastic things for our families here.
“We’re a children’s service on a significant improvement journey. We know what needs to be different for our children and families and we’re ambitious to deliver that change.
“We have a growing range of specialist services for children, where you can test and grow your skills and practice. We have a Social Work Academy that is led by people who bring passion to learning and who know that the DCS’ of the future are right in front of them. We are working on our progression pathways so that staying in Tameside is rewarded and recognised. We have investment in innovation and improvement from the council so that we can grow services and support for families that we can sustain, from family hubs through to complex safeguarding.
“I am so certain that we can build a proud, inclusive and safe climate for great practice to flourish in Tameside. I’d love you to join me on the journey here at Team Tameside.”
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. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. 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.
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 0161 342 2134 / rachel.berrisford@tameside.gov.uk or 0161 342 2255 / lorraine.heath@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: 000946
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