Early Help Advisor
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,492 to £29,726 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Yardley, Birmingham |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 20420 |
Summary
Our Early Help Advisors provide “light touch" support with families. This can be one off interactions and/or on-going family support/intervention for a suggested maximum of four to six weeks. The role will involve; offering support, advice and guidance around family needs, parenting, mental health, housing, education etc. Early Help Advisors actions will include: listening and reflecting with parents/carers, completing some introductory and exit scaling work with families, referral completion, signposting to families – using mixture of remote (by phone and email) contact and direct work and home visits. We need colleagues who can build trusting relationships with families, children and young people. Relationships are built through empathy, listening, sound knowledge and understanding of local and national resources and the ability to respond to need. You should be confident in meeting with families in community spaces, schools and their homes when needed.
You will respond effectively and in a timely manner to needs as identified in Family Connect Forms referred into the service and tasks set by team manager as well as those needs that arise directly from families. Where applicable you will assist with identifying and speaking with the most appropriate person (such as a school) to undertake Early Help Assessments and Our Family Plans, so you will need to build rapport with families and professionals working with them. You will record and report any concerns and explore any barriers with colleagues and manager. You will be able to make clear and meaningful case recordings.
You will work equally well remotely and independently as you do alongside Early Help colleagues in shared office space across Yardley and Hodge Hill and be able to manage your time well, whilst being motivated to make a difference to the families and children you support.
We have additional funding to grow our team from three people to eight to support in our busy districts - we are looking to interview and agree start dates asap to support growing demand. The posts are funded through until March 2027.
Please carefully read the additional information sheet before applying and ensure you explain how you meet the responsibilities and education/knowledge in your application.
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
You will respond effectively and in a timely manner to needs as identified in Family Connect Forms referred into the service and tasks set by team manager as well as those needs that arise directly from families. Where applicable you will assist with identifying and speaking with the most appropriate person (such as a school) to undertake Early Help Assessments and Our Family Plans, so you will need to build rapport with families and professionals working with them. You will record and report any concerns and explore any barriers with colleagues and manager. You will be able to make clear and meaningful case recordings.
You will work equally well remotely and independently as you do alongside Early Help colleagues in shared office space across Yardley and Hodge Hill and be able to manage your time well, whilst being motivated to make a difference to the families and children you support.
We have additional funding to grow our team from three people to eight to support in our busy districts - we are looking to interview and agree start dates asap to support growing demand. The posts are funded through until March 2027.
Please carefully read the additional information sheet before applying and ensure you explain how you meet the responsibilities and education/knowledge in your application.
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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