Early Help Practice Development Coach

London Borough of Newham; London; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The London Borough of Newham is seeking two Early Help Practice Development Coaches on a fixed-term contract until 31/03/26. The role focuses on enhancing early help services, supporting families, and embedding a systemic practice model. The starting salary ranges from £41,442 to £44,331, and applications are encouraged from individuals passionate about making a difference in children's lives.

Qualifications

• Experience in early help and prevention services.
• Ability to support families and coordinate effective support.
• Knowledge of systemic and restorative practice.

Responsibilities

• Embed Newham’s relational and systemic practice model.
• Coach and support the wider Early Help workforce.
• Promote the use of Early Help Assessment and Lead Practitioner role.

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Job Description

Early Help Practice Development Coach X 2

Fixed-term contract until 31/03/26

Starting salary of £41,442 - £44,331 (PO2)

The closing date for receipt of your applications is 01/06/25, however, interest in these jobs may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

we are Newham

We are a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich East London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We are a challenging yet rewarding place to work, with the networks in place to enable you to be the best Practitioner that you can be and make a real difference to our children and families. Our social care services were rated to be GOOD overall by Ofsted, with leadership rated as OUTSTANDING, but we have not stopped striving to be better.

Job Description

Early Help Practice Development Coach X 2

Fixed-term contract until 31/03/26

Starting salary of £41,442 - £44,331 (PO2)

The closing date for receipt of your applications is 01/06/25, however, interest in these jobs may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

we are Newham

We are a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich East London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We are a challenging yet rewarding place to work, with the networks in place to enable you to be the best Practitioner that you can be and make a real difference to our children and families. Our social care services were rated to be GOOD overall by Ofsted, with leadership rated as OUTSTANDING, but we have not stopped striving to be better.

We’ve been working tirelessly to establish a Centre of Excellence for Children’s Services through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our 'Circles of Support' practice model; centring on systemic and restorative practice and a specialist support offer for our Practitioners. Ofsted described Newham as having a positive culture of learning and development and we’d love for you to learn and grow with us.

About Us

Early Help and Prevention Services in Newham are undergoing a transformation to ensure that we offer timely and dynamic joined up support to children and families.

Our primary aims are early detection and identification of children and family’s needs, offering ‘the right support at the right time’ to mitigate against escalation of children’s needs and risks by supporting families to avoid crisis through earlier identification, targeted support, safety and contingency planning.

We adopt the role of Lead Practitioner, offering planned purposeful and focused targeted interventions, our aim being to reduce volume of referrals to child protection services, and in accordance with Newham’s Early help strategy, to improve children's long-term outcomes around health and education, improved emotional wellbeing, ensuring that children and young people can feel safe and thrive in their communities.

Our transformed targeted Early Help Service will see four newly configured teams, comprising of an Early Help Manager, and a mix of Early Help, and Senior Early Help Practitioners aligned with Newham’s four locality Family Hubs networks.

Family Hub’s provide a range of universal services from conception to 18 years (up to 25 years if young person has additional needs). This is inclusive of a strong start for life offer, supporting child and parent through each developmental stage.

Changes within Early Help will align with wider context of proposed Family Help model and Families First Partnership reforms (March 2025).

We are recruiting to a number of positions in the Early Help space:

About The Job

To embed Newham’s relational, systemic and restorative practice model within the four locality areas, promoting the use of the Early Help Assessment and Lead Practitioner role. To coach and support the wider Early Help workforce to support earlier identification of needs and coordinate effective support around the family in a consistent and joined up approach.

To find out more about the role please download the JD here

For an informal discussion about the posts, please contact Fran Craven at [e-mail] and Dawn Henry at [e-mail]

You will be notified if your application has been successful, we are aiming to shortlist W/B 02/06/25 and schedule interviews between 09/06/25 and 27/06/25. We thank you for your interest.

IMPORTANT: If you are an LBN member of staff and applying for this role as a secondment you should note that secondments are subject to the agreement of your current employing service. Please ensure that you inform your line manager of your intention to apply for the post in the first instance.

Additional Information

We are committed to creating an inclusive, anti-racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. If you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need, that’s all that matters to us.

The London Borough of Newham has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.

We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn .

About Us

The London Borough of Newham is located only 5 miles east of London. It is well positioned with access to all major networks in London and the south east. It is well connected by public transport with, bus, tube and DLR. When the Crossrail service opens it will call at Custom House close to our council offices and also Stratford station and from there to central London. The London City Airport which serves major European cities is located at Royal Albert Dock. Newham has the youngest overall population in the country. It was one of the six host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and contains most of the Olympic Park including the London Stadium. It has a thriving arts quarter with the Theatre Royal Stratford East offering excellent entertainment for all the family. There is the University of East London which has two campuses in Newham, one in Stratford and another next to the regenerated Royal Albert Dock. It also has a large Westfield shopping Centre in Stratford which has all the major retailers there.

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