Families First Partnership Programme – Health Lead
| Posting date: | 07 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro-rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2026 |
| Location: | St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 4LG |
| Company: | East of England Community Health & Care NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7919666/448-CCYP-7919666 |
Summary
A Vacancy at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge).
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and strategic health professional to take on the health lead role within the Families First Partnership Programme across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.
This is a 12-month Fixed Term or Secondment opportunityhosted by East of England Community Health & Care NHS Trust but working system-wide within Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council alongside key partners including Education, Police and the families first programme Leads.
This role is pivotal in shaping and embedding the health contribution to the Families First partnership programme, supporting the delivery of integrated help and family support approaches that improves outcomes for the vulnerable children’s young people and their families.
As the health lead you will provide senior clinical and professional leadership ensuring that health expertise is fully embedded within the multi-agency decision making, planning and delivery across the programme. You will work at the strategic and operational level, influencing system change, supporting partnership working and ensuring alignment between NHS services, local authority priorities and national policy direction.
Why not click on the link to the Job Description and find out more about the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 13.4.26
You will act as the Health Safeguarding System Design & Integration Lead for the Families First Partnership Programme (FFPP) across Cambs & Peterborough.
The role requires strong relationship building skills, confidence working across organisational boundaries & the ability to translate & influence health priorities into practical collaborative solutions which meet the need of the collaborative design of the programme.
The role exists to exercise delegated authority from the ICB via the health strategic lead on the Families First Programme Board, on a 12-month secondment basis, to represent the health safeguarding partner within the design, mobilisation and embedding of the reformed system of help, support and protection established through the Families First reforms.
Working at system level, you will support the FFPP to ensure the health’s statutory safeguarding responsibilities are designed into, aligned with & embedded across:
*Family Help, including its interface with health services & the wider community system
*Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPTs) & associated section 47 arrangements
*Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) including its application at pre-proceedings
You will operate as the authoritative health representative within the programme, enabling timely multi-agency design decisions, reducing the need for routine escalation, & addressing governance, workforce, pathway and information-sharing barriers that would otherwise impede effective implementation.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Act as the authoritative health safeguarding partner representative within the Families First Partnership Programme, operating with delegated authority from the Integrated Care Board (ICB) to support timely system design and implementation decisions.
Represent and articulate agreed health system positions in programme governance, design forums and multi-agency working groups, reducing the need for routine escalation to senior ICB leadership.
Lead the design and embedding of health interfaces with Family Help, ensuring health services are appropriately aligned to the Family Help model, including the Family Help Lead Practitioner role and the single assessment and plan.
Work with health providers and commissioners to agree how health practitioners contribute to multi-disciplinary Family Help teams, including escalation pathways into child protection where concerns about significant harm arise.
Support the alignment of health pathways (including 0–19 services and relevant community health provision) with the end-to-end Families First system, avoiding duplication, fragmentation or parallel processes.
Support the design and mobilisation of Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPTs) by shaping and agreeing health’s contribution to section 47 enquiries, child protection conferences and statutory decision-making.
Work with partners to clarify the role of health professionals within MACPT arrangements, including access to medical expertise, advice, and escalation routes.
Ensure MACPT design reflects statutory safeguarding responsibilities, local health system realities, and the expectations set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023).
Support the embedding of Family Group Decision Making across the Families First system, including its application at pre-proceedings, ensuring health services are appropriately engaged and enabled to contribute.
Work with partners to identify and address practical, cultural or system barriers that may inhibit effective health participation in FGDM processes.
Lead, on behalf of health, the identification and resolution of information-sharing barriers across the Families First system, ensuring approaches are lawful, proportionate and operationally workable.
Support the alignment and streamlining of multi-agency governance arrangements, ensuring health safeguarding responsibilities are discharged efficiently and transparently.
Contribute to the development of assurance mechanisms that demonstrate effective health engagement in safeguarding and Families First delivery.
Draw on learning from Families First pathfinders, evidence-based practice and interprets national guidance to inform local design and implementation decisions.
Support the embedding of a whole-system Families First culture within health services, promoting shared understanding of roles, responsibilities and expectations.
Identify risks to effective implementation from a health system perspective and work with the programme to develop mitigations that support sustainable delivery.
Develops a range of long-term strategic plans for performance, service improvement in line with the ongoing development and function of the families first partnership programme in partnership with statutory partners across the organisations.
Develops health policies for the implementation of the Families First Partnership Programme.
Communication
Maintain clear escalation routes for matters outside delegated authority, ensuring accountability is preserved without impeding delivery pace.
Provide advice and lead on the engagement and communications across the partnership to support the Families first approach
Facilitate multi-agency engagement and learning at all levels, promoting effective collaboration and communication where negotiation skills are paramount.
Build strong relationships with local and regional representatives, local authorities, and other partners to support the programme's objectives.
Engage with families, children, and young people to facilitate their voices shaping the co-design and implementation of services.
Provide regular reports to the senior leadership forums across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Local Authorities, ICBs and other statutory and voluntary sector partners.
To present the design and development of the Families First Partnership Programme to boards and sub committees across the statutory and voluntary sector stakeholders.
Budgetary Responsibility
Responsible for delegated budgets, income and expenditure positions related to the design of Families First Partnership Programme from a health perspective.
Ensure financial targets are met in the development of the reforms.
Develop business cases and service level agreements for service developments ensuring that the implications of service change or developments have been accurately assessed.
People Management
Participate in the development of staff aligned to the family first partnership programme
Maintain own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal and KSF process.
Research & Development Activity
Required to regularly undertake R&D activity in line with the programme
Clinical and Practice Governance
Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call, transported or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes
The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures
It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with your professional body, and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.
The post holder must participate in clinical and safeguarding audits as required
Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team
Participate in Clinical & Safeguarding supervision on a regular basis
The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team.
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 Apr 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and strategic health professional to take on the health lead role within the Families First Partnership Programme across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.
This is a 12-month Fixed Term or Secondment opportunityhosted by East of England Community Health & Care NHS Trust but working system-wide within Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council alongside key partners including Education, Police and the families first programme Leads.
This role is pivotal in shaping and embedding the health contribution to the Families First partnership programme, supporting the delivery of integrated help and family support approaches that improves outcomes for the vulnerable children’s young people and their families.
As the health lead you will provide senior clinical and professional leadership ensuring that health expertise is fully embedded within the multi-agency decision making, planning and delivery across the programme. You will work at the strategic and operational level, influencing system change, supporting partnership working and ensuring alignment between NHS services, local authority priorities and national policy direction.
Why not click on the link to the Job Description and find out more about the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 13.4.26
You will act as the Health Safeguarding System Design & Integration Lead for the Families First Partnership Programme (FFPP) across Cambs & Peterborough.
The role requires strong relationship building skills, confidence working across organisational boundaries & the ability to translate & influence health priorities into practical collaborative solutions which meet the need of the collaborative design of the programme.
The role exists to exercise delegated authority from the ICB via the health strategic lead on the Families First Programme Board, on a 12-month secondment basis, to represent the health safeguarding partner within the design, mobilisation and embedding of the reformed system of help, support and protection established through the Families First reforms.
Working at system level, you will support the FFPP to ensure the health’s statutory safeguarding responsibilities are designed into, aligned with & embedded across:
*Family Help, including its interface with health services & the wider community system
*Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPTs) & associated section 47 arrangements
*Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) including its application at pre-proceedings
You will operate as the authoritative health representative within the programme, enabling timely multi-agency design decisions, reducing the need for routine escalation, & addressing governance, workforce, pathway and information-sharing barriers that would otherwise impede effective implementation.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Act as the authoritative health safeguarding partner representative within the Families First Partnership Programme, operating with delegated authority from the Integrated Care Board (ICB) to support timely system design and implementation decisions.
Represent and articulate agreed health system positions in programme governance, design forums and multi-agency working groups, reducing the need for routine escalation to senior ICB leadership.
Lead the design and embedding of health interfaces with Family Help, ensuring health services are appropriately aligned to the Family Help model, including the Family Help Lead Practitioner role and the single assessment and plan.
Work with health providers and commissioners to agree how health practitioners contribute to multi-disciplinary Family Help teams, including escalation pathways into child protection where concerns about significant harm arise.
Support the alignment of health pathways (including 0–19 services and relevant community health provision) with the end-to-end Families First system, avoiding duplication, fragmentation or parallel processes.
Support the design and mobilisation of Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPTs) by shaping and agreeing health’s contribution to section 47 enquiries, child protection conferences and statutory decision-making.
Work with partners to clarify the role of health professionals within MACPT arrangements, including access to medical expertise, advice, and escalation routes.
Ensure MACPT design reflects statutory safeguarding responsibilities, local health system realities, and the expectations set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023).
Support the embedding of Family Group Decision Making across the Families First system, including its application at pre-proceedings, ensuring health services are appropriately engaged and enabled to contribute.
Work with partners to identify and address practical, cultural or system barriers that may inhibit effective health participation in FGDM processes.
Lead, on behalf of health, the identification and resolution of information-sharing barriers across the Families First system, ensuring approaches are lawful, proportionate and operationally workable.
Support the alignment and streamlining of multi-agency governance arrangements, ensuring health safeguarding responsibilities are discharged efficiently and transparently.
Contribute to the development of assurance mechanisms that demonstrate effective health engagement in safeguarding and Families First delivery.
Draw on learning from Families First pathfinders, evidence-based practice and interprets national guidance to inform local design and implementation decisions.
Support the embedding of a whole-system Families First culture within health services, promoting shared understanding of roles, responsibilities and expectations.
Identify risks to effective implementation from a health system perspective and work with the programme to develop mitigations that support sustainable delivery.
Develops a range of long-term strategic plans for performance, service improvement in line with the ongoing development and function of the families first partnership programme in partnership with statutory partners across the organisations.
Develops health policies for the implementation of the Families First Partnership Programme.
Communication
Maintain clear escalation routes for matters outside delegated authority, ensuring accountability is preserved without impeding delivery pace.
Provide advice and lead on the engagement and communications across the partnership to support the Families first approach
Facilitate multi-agency engagement and learning at all levels, promoting effective collaboration and communication where negotiation skills are paramount.
Build strong relationships with local and regional representatives, local authorities, and other partners to support the programme's objectives.
Engage with families, children, and young people to facilitate their voices shaping the co-design and implementation of services.
Provide regular reports to the senior leadership forums across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Local Authorities, ICBs and other statutory and voluntary sector partners.
To present the design and development of the Families First Partnership Programme to boards and sub committees across the statutory and voluntary sector stakeholders.
Budgetary Responsibility
Responsible for delegated budgets, income and expenditure positions related to the design of Families First Partnership Programme from a health perspective.
Ensure financial targets are met in the development of the reforms.
Develop business cases and service level agreements for service developments ensuring that the implications of service change or developments have been accurately assessed.
People Management
Participate in the development of staff aligned to the family first partnership programme
Maintain own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal and KSF process.
Research & Development Activity
Required to regularly undertake R&D activity in line with the programme
Clinical and Practice Governance
Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call, transported or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes
The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures
It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with your professional body, and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.
The post holder must participate in clinical and safeguarding audits as required
Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team
Participate in Clinical & Safeguarding supervision on a regular basis
The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team.
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 Apr 2026