Healthy Family Support Practitioner School Age

NHS; Ilford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the Basildon area is looking for a Healthy Family Support Practitioner to work with children aged 5-9 years and their families. As part of a dynamic team, you will provide essential support, empower parents, and work closely with various health and community services. The ideal candidate will possess relevant qualifications, effective communication skills, and a commitment to safeguarding children's welfare.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people in informal settings.
• Awareness of factors impacting vulnerable children and young people's needs.
• Understanding children's need to feel safe.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support to children, young people, and families.
• Work cooperatively with children’s services and health agencies.
• Apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.

Skills

Effective communication with children and young people

Teamwork

IT and writing skills for case notes

Education

Qualification mandatory for practice

NVQ2 or NVQ3 for staff working with vulnerable groups

Job description

Healthy Family Support Practitioner School Age - Basildon Area

Healthy Family Support Practitioner Full-Time vacancy working with children and or Young People 5- 9 years old and their families: Basildon Area.

We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced 5+ yrs practitioner to join our Healthy Family Team. Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Support Practitioners, Family Hub Practitioners and Community Connectors.

Main duties of the job

5+ Healthy Family SupportPractitionerRole

• Toworkwithchildren,youngpeopleandtheirfamilies, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.
• Toworkin partnershipwithparents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes fortheirchildren.
• Toworkco-operativelywithchildren'sservices,health agencies, primary schools and other community basedservices, to provide the most effectiveserviceforchildrenyoungpeopleandfamilies.
• Undertake developmental andhealthreviews ofchildrenandyoungpeopleat key stages oftheirlife

About us

Barnardos has been providing services to some of the mostvulnerable children across the UK for over 150 years. We work in partnershipwith childrens social care and health partners enabling the delivery ofintegrated health and social care services in a number of areas. We recognisethat to really transform childrens life chances, they need sustainedinterventions that meet the diversity of their needs and that participation andco-production must a key component of any service. If you enjoy pushing theboundaries of what works: working closely with other agencies to innovate andcreate; have the clinical expertise to lead on this project and want to workwith children and young people and their families to deliver service that trulymeet their needs, then we would like to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

To provide advice, support and services to children, young people and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. Specifics of Service attached as applicable.

Key Responsibilities

For Service Users

Under guidance and instruction

To work with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.

To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.

To work co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.

To apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Education/Knowledge
• Qualification mandatory for practice, where applicable. (NB: In future there is likely to be a requirement for at least NVQ2 for staff assisting and working alongside other staff in work with children, young people and vulnerable adults. For staff having sole and direct access to children, young people and vulnerable adults, the requirement will be for NVQ3.
• Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children and young people and families e.g. disadvantage, poverty, disability.
• Awareness of childrens need to feel safe.

Skills/Abilities

• Skills/Abilities
• Able to listen to and communicate effectively with children and young people.
• Able to work as part of a team. Able to accurately and clearly record case notes deploying the necessary standard of writing and IT skills.
• Able to apply Barnardo's safeguarding and child protection procedures.
• Circumstances
• Staff will have to abide by Barnardo's Smoking Policy which does not permit smoking at work

Experience

• Experience
• Some experience of work with children and young people but this does not have to have been gained in a formal employment setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.