Early Help Coordinator - Team Around the Family

North East Lincolnshire Council; England; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

Can you build lasting relationships across care sectors and communities?

Do you have the key knowledge of local services to direct and signpost to best available support?

Be the difference, make the change.

We have two exciting full time opportunities for Early Help Coordinators to join our Team.

Our Purpose

Our service seeks to support our wider partners and universal services, in supporting the children and families of North East Lincolnshire, without the need for statutory, or social care support.

The Role

This is a new and exciting role in our service. As an EH Coordinator you will work closely with the agencies that form the team around the child, including schools, nurseries, mental health services and the voluntary sector. As part of this role, you will build strong, robust, and open relationships with partner agencies, in order to support children and families without the need for a Local Authority response.

The post holder will support agencies in the completion of Early Help assessments, the creation and delivery of team around the family plans and holding team around the family meetings to ensure the children/family's needs are met at the lowest proportionate level. The post holder will also signpost to other support services and offer support and advice to professionals around alternative services, which are best placed to support the child and family. The role also requires you to develop and deliver training and champion early help across the partnership.

About You

The ideal postholder will have a high level of interpersonal skills to be able to work as part of a team and develop professional and effective partnership working with all agencies, which will demand highly developed facilitation and influencing skills.

Assessment and exploration skills are crucial to identify levels of need and barriers for children, young people and families in order to determine the right level of support by the right person at the right time.

The post holder will have the knowledge and experience of understanding what support is available across NEL and be confident to signpost partners to these agencies.

The ideal candidate will be confident to develop, facilitate and deliver training and to champion Early Help across the borough.

Your Application

All applicants are advised to carefully read the information provided in the Role Profile and Person Specification. If you require an informal discussion about the role, please contact Rachel Cross - Service Lead - Family Help: [e-mail]

In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:

1. At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)
2. You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses)
3. References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position

Key Dates
Interview date: 01 May 2025

We want you to have the best interview experience with us, so will provide candidates selected for interview their questions 24 hours in advance of meeting us.

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.

As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.

You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.

NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.

Do you need support?

If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.

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