Sunderland PVH Early Help Workers Temporary Early Help Worker - TFC1103 - Early Help
We are seeking an Early Help Worker to work permanent variable hours to provide additional support to Schools with attendance. You will work directly with children, young people and families in the home and in community settings to provide early help support and interventions.
NB: Candidates must have access to transport and be able to work in the community.
Responsibilities include:
- Provide and implement appropriate induction for families into health, family support, social care and education opportunities and sign-post families to support available through the universal services.
- Carry a case-load of children, young people and their families, commensurate with need and complexity, and co-ordinate a team around that child/family as Lead Professional.
- Undertake outreach work, providing support for families and children in need, including home visiting, coordinating work as part of the team around the child.
- Use the operating system and early help processes to assess, plan and review early help activity with each case.
- Monitor the progress of all plans, review progress and adjust plans as needed; ensure all information is available for Troubled Families returns and claims.
- Liaise with colleagues in the Early Help Advice and Allocations Team when considering “step up” processes.
- Deliver advice and support in the home and in early education settings to parents and professionals for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
- Deliver evidence-based child development programmes and parenting support programmes.
- Deliver learning and behaviour support and health interventions, such as smoking cessation, where appropriate.
- Work with young people to avoid them becoming NEET.
- Work with colleagues in the Youth Justice Service to prevent young people re-offending.
- Promote and implement an inclusive environment for all children and families.
- Contribute to a range of activities in response to local need.
- Share with any day-care setting, school or training provider your knowledge and understanding of the developmental stages of the children and young people you support.
- Support vulnerable children and families acting as Lead Professional when required.
- Ensure accurate, timely recordings on the Child’s individual file, analysing and reflecting on child’s process.
- Maintain a chronology of all significant events for children and young people on plans.
- Contribute to the target to reduce the number of children looked after.
Pay Rate: £9.78 per hour PAYE
This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.
N.B. – Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Giving yourself the best chance of success:
- Your CV needs to be current with your latest/present role, noting that we won’t be able to submit it with any unexplained gaps in employment. It will save time and thus improve your chances of success if we can put your CV forward immediately and without having to ask you for a revised version.
- Your CV must cover the “Essential Requirements” (see below) of the role, ideally by way of bullet points that directly address the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please include any DBS details and other qualifications called for.
- Your CV should clearly state that you are available to start work either immediately, or at short notice. In general, our clients are unable to work with notice periods of more than 1 week from the point at which a role is offered, 2 weeks at the very most.
- We cannot put forward covering letters, so please ensure that your CV in isolation contains all relevant information being called for.
- We recommend that you consider sending us by email (see * below) a suitably ‘tailored’ CV for each role that you apply for, noting that job boards, sites and aggregators will generally store only one version of your CV, which can be a bit limiting...
“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Qualifications:
- Level 3 or higher qualification in an appropriate discipline.
- Level 2 English and Mathematics (Grade C GCSE or equivalent).
- At least one accredited parenting, counselling, play therapy, mental health, domestic abuse or other relevant family intervention training qualification.
- Knowledge & Experience:
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families.
- Experience of working in a challenging and pressured environment.
- Experience of multi-agency, inter-disciplinary working.
- Experience of co-ordinating family support meetings (or equivalent, such as Teams Around the Family).
- Understanding of the problems faced by children, young people and their families nationally, regionally and locally.
- Knowledge of the legal framework pertaining to safeguarding and child protection.
- Knowledge of the Troubled Families programme.
- Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice.
- Skills:
- Able to work within regulations and agreements pertaining to confidentiality, information-sharing, GDPR, safeguarding.
- Ability to engage in meaningful professional relationships with children, young people and their families.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences and in a variety of formats (verbal and written).
- Ability to make observations during planned work with children, young people and their families and to keep accurate recordings of these.
- Ability to assess, plan, review and measure progress towards agreed outcomes for children, young people and their families.
- Able to work flexibly and on own initiative.
- Ability to make decisions and problem-solve.
- Able to recognise and respond appropriately to risk.
- Ability to prioritise or reprioritise workload, meet stringent deadlines and targets and work to national standards.
- IT skills including Microsoft packages.
- Access to transport and be able to work in the community.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience.
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
Client Category: Local Authority
Division(s)/Disciplines involved: Early Help/Education/SENs/Children and Young People/Families
Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 4-5 months.
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, variable shift working patterns - details tbc
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- If you would prefer to send a CV straight to us rather than by way of an on-line application, you are very welcome to do so via jobs@tclrec.com but please quote both the job reference and job title exactly as they appear below:
Job Ref: Sunderland PVH Early Help Workers
Temporary Early Help Worker - TFC1103 - Early Help
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