The job itself

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Early Help and Prevention Practitioner. This is a permanent, part time job share opportunity, working 18.5 hours a week within our busy and effective Children’s Front Door service. We need a confident team player to join our vibrant and dedicated service on our journey to excellence.

The Childrens Front Door is the first point of contact for all potential safeguarding concerns and Early Help requests in relation to children. You will work within the Early Help Hub and be part of a team of Early Help and Prevention practitioners working in a multi-agency forum alongside the Safeguarding Hub. You will be part of a supportive service rated as “GOOD” by OFSTED who work together to ensure that children receive the right service, at the right time.

We need someone with passion, and motivation, with a commitment on improving effective outcomes for our children and families and continuing to develop the service to excellence.

You will:

• Respond to 0-19 early help requests for service over the telephone or via email.
• Collate and analyse information and recommend the right service to meet identified need.
• Provide families with details of self-help offers and universal services that are available to them.
• Signpost to professionals to support services.
• Communicate with families, young people and children alongside professionals effectively.
• Understand when potential safeguarding concerns need escalating / stepping across to statutory social care services.
• Offer the right service, at the right level, at the right time to families.

Are you:

• Dedicated and hardworking?
• A creative and enthusiastic individual who can demonstrate an ambitious approach in making a positive difference to the lives of children, young people and families?
• Excited about working in a diverse role where no two days are the same?
• A team player?
• Flexible and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment?

Do you:

• Want to communicate and work relationally across services?
• Have the skills to work within timescales?
• Want to work in a culture that is nurturing and supportive?
• Hold a relevant Level 3 qualification?

If so we would love to hear from you. For the best opportunity in being shortlisted for an interview demonstrate through examples within your personal statement your skills, knowledge and experience that meet all the essential criteria on the job specification. Also, take into consideration the job outline.

Our model of practice

Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this is set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities. Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

A well embedded model ensures we all have something to centre our practice on so that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

Other important information

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and is pursuing equality of opportunity in employment.

This post is subject to suitable references and enhanced DBS Check.