Family Early Help Practitioner
The role
Are you passionate with a drive to make a positive impact to the lives of children and families?
Southwark Family Early Help (FEH) provides early help through a whole family approach based on collaboration with families and with partners from schools, health, children’s services and the community.
We have available x1 permanent and x1 fixed term contract for 12 months in our 11+ Service.
This is an exciting opportunity for a practitioner seeking to develop their skill and expertise in supporting families in need, to prevent problems and difficulties escalating to the stage that statutory or legal intervention is required.
You will deliver outstanding support to families where children are at risk of poor outcomes. The role involves providing early intervention to prevent issues from escalating, supporting families transitioning from statutory services, and developing comprehensive family plans to ensure child safeguarding, school attendance, and positive citizenship. You will engage directly with families, promoting sustainable change through a balanced approach of challenge and support.
About you:
The ideal candidate will hold a relevant academic or professional qualification at Level 4 or higher.
You will have a track record of working holistically with children, young people and families within a whole family model. You will be a highly skilled practitioner who will demonstrate your extensive capability in engagement, undertaking comprehensive whole family assessments which create clear goals, and your use of evidenced informed practice.
You will be required to demonstrate your skillset to act as a ‘lead professional’ and the importance of working purposefully and collaboratively with all family members and other agencies to achieve best outcomes for children. You will have an awareness of education issues and understanding of how to work with schools and families to drive engagement of children and families in educational attendance and ambition.
You will have strong assessment skills and be adept in developing creative, aspirational whole family plans.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Additional details
Please note a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required at enhanced level.
Benefits and more information:
In return for all your hard work, skills and experience, you will receive:
- A competitive base salary (pro rata for part time staff).
- Strong supportive senior management team.
- Regular one to one supervision.
- Professional development & training opportunities.
- Clear career development pathways.
- Agile and flexible working arrangements.
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Season ticket and cycle loans.
- Annual Leave starting at 29 days per year, increasing to 37 (with length of service) (pro rata for part time staff).
- Wellbeing programme.
- HSF Health plan and eye care scheme.
- EAP employee assistance programme, confidential counselling and support.
- Social clubs and staff groups.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 9 August 2024 at 23:59.
Interview date: week commencing 19 August 2024.
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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