Intensive Family Help Practitioner

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

Job summary

The North East Lincolnshire Council seeks an Intensive Family Help Practitioner to provide crucial support to children and families facing crises. This role requires passionate practitioners who can deliver interventions effectively, ensuring that families remain together and thrive. Practitioners will work within emotionally complex environments, offering solutions-focused approaches while covering evenings and weekends. Benefits include generous leave, a pension scheme, and various wellbeing support options.

Benefits

Generous leave entitlement

Local government pension

Access to RewardNEL platform

Flexible working

Training and development opportunities

Fostering friendly scheme

Qualifications

• Skilled practitioner committed to making a difference in children's lives.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, emotionally complex situations.
• Solution-focused approach to challenges.

Responsibilities

• Provide interventions to reduce family crises and improve functioning.
• Support families in crisis on a rota basis.
• Deliver evidence-based programmes to improve outcomes.

Skills

Resilience

Passion for helping families

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

Join a service that empowers you, supports you, and values your skills.

Make a change, be the difference in the lives of children and our future.

Intensive Family Help Practitioner (Edge of Care)

As an Intensive Family Help Practitioner, you will provide a range of interventions to children and families. You will undertake planned and emergency intensive support to reduce family crises, improve family functioning, and prevent children from entering care, using various intervention methods and skills.

You will work on a rota basis, covering evenings and weekends routinely to support families in crisis, prevent breakdowns, meet needs at the lowest level, and prevent escalation to statutory services.

You will deliver evidence-based programmes to individuals and groups of children, young people, or families to improve outcomes, raise aspirations, introduce positive activities, and keep families safely together.

What we're looking for

We’re seeking passionate, resilient, and skilled practitioners committed to making a real difference in the lives of children and families. You’ll thrive in fast-paced, emotionally complex situations and bring a calm, solution-focused approach to every challenge.

For more information, please refer to the role profile or email: [e-mail]

We aim to interview candidates w/c 01 September 2025

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

As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays), enrolment into a local government pension, and access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform, offering salary sacrifice schemes, discounts, wellbeing support, and more.

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

To fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if successful, you must:

• Provide at least one reference from your current or most recent employment or work experience (or from your agency if applicable).
• Use a professional or company email address for references.
• Ensure references cover the last 3 years; explain any gaps in your reference form. References will only be requested if you are offered and accept a position.

Support available

If you need help applying, contact Wendy Trask at 07702 338542 (text or call) for assistance with digital access, application guidance, or advice.

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