Early Help Family Support Practitioner

2-month contract position with a local authority

Summary

• This is a 2-month contract position with a local authority working as part of a team of Early Help Family Practitioners. The role involves delivering interventions within a multi-agency system to provide intensive support to families with multiple and complex needs. The practitioner will conduct child-centered holistic family assessments using evidence-based tools to identify adverse childhood experiences and factors affecting family functioning. The goal is to increase resilience enhance parenting capacity and promote strong child-parent attachments to support positive child outcomes.
  

Responsibilities

• Work as an Early Help Family Practitioner in line with Hackney Family Support Practice Guidance and Multi-Agency Team protocol.
  
• Promote a safe environment that safeguards children ensuring adherence to appropriate safeguarding procedures.
  
• Provide structured and individualised support to children and families using assessment tools like Hackneys Early Help Assessment Form creating individual plans with agreed outcomes targets and review dates.
  
• Act as the lead professional for individual families coordinating and sharing information at MAT Meetings and supporting team around the child meetings.
  
• Support parents/carers in caring for their child through targeted work at home group work and coordinated services addressing barriers such as housing and financial issues.
  
• Coordinate and deliver parenting groups to help parents/carers understand their childs needs and strengthen their parenting skills.
  

Requirements

• Significant experience working with children and families.
  
• Experience providing parenting support and delivering parenting programs groups or forums to vulnerable families with complex needs.
  
• Experience offering advice information and guidance to families to build resilience and capacity.
  
• Experience with a child-centered and outcomes-based approach to working with children and families.
  
• Experience visiting and delivering interventions in family homes.
  

Essential Qualifications Required

• Minimum Level 3 qualification in childcare & education primary education work with parents health or social work.
  
• Level 4 Award in Work with Parents.
  

Additional Information

• Enhanced DBS required for the role.
  

The role closes on 4th December 2025 apply ASAP.

Required Skills:

To work as part of a team of Early Help Family Practitioners to deliver interventions as part of a wider multi-agency system in order to provide intense support to families with multiple and complex needs

Required Education:

To work as part of a team of Early Help Family Practitioners to deliver interventions as part of a wider multi-agency system in order to provide intense support to families with multiple and complex needs