Targeted Early Help Practitioner

Wakefield Council; Wakefield; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (subject to role Suita-

Competitive salary

LGPS pension scheme

Employee benefits

Job summary

Wakefield Council is seeking a dedicated Lead Practitioner for Early Help to support families across the district. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, coordinating care, assessing needs, and developing strength-based plans to reduce risk and improve outcomes for children and families.

The role involves coordinating intensive multi-agency support, reporting outcomes, and ensuring services meet legislation and local policy.

Responsibilities

• Lead practitioner for Early Help, working with children and families to improve identified outcomes.
• Case management of packages of support for families with multiple needs and development of plans of support.
• Coordinate intensive multi-agency support packages and lead multi-agency reviews of support plans.
• Respond rapidly to Early Help referrals to determine immediate needs and support information gathering for allocation and reporting against performance frameworks.

Job description

Are you passionate about making a difference to our citizens and the district that they reside in? Then, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of the Early Help Offer for families, adopting a whole family, strengths-based approach in order to reduce risk, increase resilience and improve outcomes for children. The post holder will have core functions as a lead practitioner for Early Help, working with other agencies and directly with children and families to improve identified outcomes. Case management of packages of support for families with multiple needs, undertaking assessments, developing plans of support, and taking a lead co-ordinating role, including co-ordination of intensive multi- agency support packages where needed and leading on multi-agency reviews of the support plans. Rapid response to Early Help referrals received into the Integrated Front Door to determine the immediate needs of a child, young person or family and to support information gathering to enable appropriate allocation. To report on outcomes as part of the Children and Young People's Performance Framework. To ensure that services are delivered in compliance with relevant legislation, local and national policy and guidance.

Wakefield Council is wholly committed to ensuring children and vulnerable adults are fully supported and safe. We are dedicated to the safeguarding of all children and vulnerable adults whilst promoting their welfare. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this responsibility. DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) The successful applicant will be required to complete a Disclosure Application Form and to provide criminal conviction information. Probation In accordance with the Council Probation Procedure, this post is subject to a 6-month Probationary Period. Fluency Duty To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), public facing roles will be subject to the Fluency Duty. Diversity Having a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve helps us to achieve the best outcomes for all. We encourage applications from everyone and actively seek to ensure that everyone feels included in the workplace so that we can make the most of our differences.

• A competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy up to 10 extra days of annual leave
• Hybrid working (subject to role suitability)
• Access to high-quality training programs to advance your career to the next level.
• We are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our staff. We recognise that resilient teams need good work life balance as well as supportive leadership.
• Discounted and subsidised public transport (Arriva Bus Annual Travel Ticket, Northern Trains Limited (NTL), MetroCard).
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and a Shared Cost Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) scheme providing a tax efficient way to increase our pension.
• Great range of benefits including an Employee Assistant Programme, discounted membership to our excellent leisure facilities with free 12 weeks exercise program, discounts for a range of retail, entertainment, health and leisure providers, a cycle to work scheme, and many more