Senior Early Help Practitioner

Duration: Initially 3 months
Hours: 36 hours a week
Rate: £32 umbrella an hour (£25 PAYE and hour)

Southwark Council are looking for a Senior Early Help Practitioner to join their team with the requirement to work in the borough five days per week

As a Senior Early Help Practitioner, you will:

• Be expected to organize your work independently working to agreed standards to ensure that families and children receive an excellent service
• Provide information, advice, guidance, access to multi agency family help and support services as an internal partner
• Work with families who may come to the attention of children's social care where a statutory social work response may be less effective or is assessed to be disproportionate to reduce the risk of significant harm
• Progress contacts in collaboration with MASH social workers, offering immediate help visits and making recommendations where families need an early help assessment
• Facilitate helping conversations that involve families in accessing the most appropriate support services
• Provide short term family support plans with families in crisis situations

Requirements

• Recognised and relevant academic and/or professional qualification at level 5/degree level or higher in direct work with families or have significant experience in complex whole family work
• Knowledge of guidance and best practice in work with 0-19 year olds and their families
• Experience of complex whole family direct work with children and their families within an early help context
• Experience within a similar role