Family-Centered Early Help Practitioner

Bury Council; Radcliffe; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Bury Council is seeking two Early Help Practitioners to join the Targeted Early Help Locality Team. You will handle a caseload of families with diverse needs, delivering targeted early help and working closely with schools, social care and health professionals to improve outcomes.

You will conduct whole-family assessments, co-produce SMART plans and deliver interventions, including parenting support, while maintaining strong safeguarding practices and multi-agency collaboration.

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with vulnerable children, young people and families
• Good understanding of safeguarding, thresholds, and the continuum of need
• Knowledge of child development, attachment, and impact of adversity (including ACEs)
• Experience of assessment, planning, and delivering interventions in a multi-agency context
• Commitment to empowering families to make and sustain positive change

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of families, providing targeted early help intervention
• Complete whole-family Early Help Assessments using evidence-based tools
• Work directly with children, young people and families through home visits and other settings
• Co-produce SMART outcome-focused plans with families and partner agencies
• Deliver practical and evidence-based interventions, including direct work and parenting support
• Lead and coordinate Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings and multi-agency reviews
• Ensure the voice of the child is central to all assessments, plans and interventions
• Maintain accurate, timely and high-quality case recording in line with service standards
• Promote and support parenting capacity and positive family relationships
• Work collaboratively with partners to ensure appropriate support and clear step-up/step-down decisions

Skills

Building relationships

Safeguarding knowledge

Engaging resistant families

Caseload management

Team collaboration

Education

Level 3 qualification

Job description

Bury Council is seeking two Early Help Practitioners to join the Targeted Early Help Locality Team. You will handle a caseload of families with diverse needs, delivering targeted early help and working closely with schools, social care and health professionals to improve outcomes.

You will conduct whole-family assessments, co-produce SMART plans and deliver interventions, including parenting support, while maintaining strong safeguarding practices and multi-agency collaboration.