If you are driven to support children, young people and families to thrive, we are looking for a skilled and compassionate Early Help Professional to help build resilience, improve outcomes and create meaningful, long-term change.

Disability Confident Employer

As an Early Help Professional, you will be responsible for:

• managing a caseload of families who may have complex and unique needs and linking them to a range of universal and targeted services, taking into account their individual and cultural experiences.
• undertaking and overseeing comprehensive family assessments and develop supportive interventions that reflect the needs identified, taking into account your duty to safeguard vulnerable adults and children.
• establishing and maintaining effective and collaborative working relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies.
• delivering programmes and group work where appropriate and co-ordinate a Team Around the Family approach that enables children, young people and families to be resilient and make positive life choices.
• working closely and creatively with the local communities, voluntary organisations, childcare and education provisions (0-19 years) and partner agencies to establish and connect to appropriate services for care and support.
• working within established procedures for handling and assessing information, notably confidentiality, safeguarding and health and safety, undertaking risk assessments where appropriate and ensuring appropriate and timely support packages.

You will build positive and engaging relationships with children, young people and families, responding to their needs with empathy, professionalism and a solution-focused approach. You will also have experience with working closely with partners across education, health, housing, social care and the voluntary sector, you will help ensure families receive the right support at the right time.
 
A strong understanding of safeguarding, risk and vulnerable adults and children will be important, alongside the ability to maintain accurate case records and develop individual and family support plans in line with service standards, case recording protocols and GDPR requirements. You will be organised, collaborative and confident in managing complexity, while keeping the voices of children, young people and families at the centre of your work.
 
Experience of working across agencies, contributing to multi-agency meetings and supporting positive outcomes for families will be key.