Early Help Practitioner
Children's Services

Various

Early Help Practitioner
Working Hours: 36 hours per week
Grade: 3A - £24,799- £26,999
Contract Type: 2x Permanent and 1x Fixed Term
Closing date: 9th June 2020, 12 noon

Do you want to be part of a team that asks workers to be creative, that involves everyone in big changes and new, exciting ways of working?

Do you want to be part of something new and exciting that will enrich your CV and give you the opportunity to gain skills in front line delivery, as well as service design and strategic thinking?

Salford Early Help Services is a newly established and developing service; it is a service at the heart of the local authorities’ commitment to support families in the early stages, preventing their needs escalating to a higher level.

The role is crucial in supporting families particularly those with multiple complex needs, you will be supporting families in an asset based approach, enabling and empowering the families to make sustained robust changes, thus improved outcomes for children and families.

Our early help practitioners will work with families from conception to teenage years, you will work from one of our early help hubs in Little Hulton, Swinton, Eccles and Broughton. These hubs include resources such as Children centres offering the Salford Early Years Delivery Model and family support services working with families in the home and community in an asset based way ensuring positive outcomes.

We would like to encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates to help us create an exciting, dynamic and diverse workforce. 


Job Description.doc
Person Specification.doc
Information Pack.docx
Working for Salford.pdf

Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and that you will be required to meet the cost of the DBS check – currently £44.00. The payment for this will be deducted from your first four months’ salary payments at a rate of £11.00 per month. If you do not commence employment for any reason but the DBS has been processed, you will be sent an invoice for the payment of £44.00.

About your benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition to this we offer a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.

Continuous service commitment
New employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others.

Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work https://greater.jobs/content/9189/diversity-and-inclusion.

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr.

Location
Salford Civic Centre
Vacancy Description
 
Various

Early Help Practitioner
Working Hours: 36 hours per week
Grade: 3A - £24,799- £26,999
Contract Type: 2x Permanent and 1x Fixed Term
Closing date: 9th June 2020, 12 noon

Do you want to be part of a team that asks workers to be creative, that involves everyone in big changes and new, exciting ways of working?

Do you want to be part of something new and exciting that will enrich your CV and give you the opportunity to gain skills in front line delivery, as well as service design and strategic thinking?

Salford Early Help Services is a newly established and developing service; it is a service at the heart of the local authorities’ commitment to support families in the early stages, preventing their needs escalating to a higher level.

The role is crucial in supporting families particularly those with multiple complex needs, you will be supporting families in an asset based approach, enabling and empowering the families to make sustained robust changes, thus improved outcomes for children and families.

Our early help practitioners will work with families from conception to teenage years, you will work from one of our early help hubs in Little Hulton, Swinton, Eccles and Broughton. These hubs include resources such as Children centres offering the Salford Early Years Delivery Model and family support services working with families in the home and community in an asset based way ensuring positive outcomes.

We would like to encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates to help us create an exciting, dynamic and diverse workforce. 


Job Description.doc
Person Specification.doc
Information Pack.docx
Working for Salford.pdf

Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and that you will be required to meet the cost of the DBS check – currently £44.00. The payment for this will be deducted from your first four months’ salary payments at a rate of £11.00 per month. If you do not commence employment for any reason but the DBS has been processed, you will be sent an invoice for the payment of £44.00.

About your benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition to this we offer a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.

Continuous service commitment
New employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others.

Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work https://greater.jobs/content/9189/diversity-and-inclusion.

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr.