Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews have an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Senior Early Help Navigator to join a well-established Children’s service based in Croydon.
Pay Rate: £21.75 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Shift Pattern: 36 hours per week
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Duties:
- Work with families as their key connection in accessing and engaging with services to address presenting needs, providing the conduit through which the family’s decisions are made and carried out
- Providing direct and intensive input to families across a range of issues that are adversely affecting the child’s appropriate health, development and learning
- Undertaking whole family assessments, where children are identified as vulnerable and develop appropriate family plans in partnership with parents, children, settings, the multiagency locality team and relevant agencies
- Holding a weighted caseload consisting of families with multiple and complex issues and families that require less intensive support
- Using evidence based strategies and support mechanisms to enable the child and family to sustain their own improvement
- Keeping up to date, accurate electronic case files to monitor the progress of families and evidence the impact of the work and outcomes achieved
- Ensuring safeguarding is embedded in all practice and provision, liaising closely with appropriate services as outlined in Working Together 2018 and in line with early help practitioner guidance
Requirements of the Senior Early Help Navigator:
- Significant experience and qualification in a relevant field which may include Social work, Teaching, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Youth Work, Counselling, Probation, Health professions, Education, Early Years
- Knowledge and understanding of recent research and evidence based practice in relation to working with families
- Knowledge of evidence based approaches to direct and intensive work with families with babies, children and Young People with multiple and complex needs
- Knowledge of research and evidence base of factors that affect babies, children, young people and their families who are experiencing difficulties
- Knowledge of tools and practice in relation to multi-agency team working including the use of multi-agency assessment tools such as the Early Help Assessment
- Understanding of factors when assessing needs, risk and vulnerability and an understanding safeguarding risks when case needs to be stepped up or down
- Knowledge of effective strategies and support packages that are evidenced to have improved the outcomes for families
- Experience of making a significant contribution to the development of new services or ways of working, breaking down barriers where there is resistance and being solution focussed
- Experience of developing and delivering parenting support and intervention programmes
- Experience of working in diverse settings
- Be able to work independently and directly with families in a range of environments, including their homes, including outside ‘core’ working hours
- Ability to deliver parenting programmes and evidence based services that are responsive to the needs of families
- Ability to interpret advice/statute and to devise practice in the light of these
- An ability to undertake practical tasks with families, such as cooking, setting family routines, setting boundaries and modelling positive parenting strategies
- The ability to work effectively as a member of a multi-agency team, and contribute positively to whole service plans, team development and supervision
- Ability to be reflective and evaluate learning needs, actively seeking learning opportunities that improve practice and impact on service outcomes
- Ability to build excellent working relationships and effectively engage parents and families in professional and, where appropriate, sustained relationships
- Ability to work independently and creatively consulting on complex issues including emerging risks and safeguarding issues
- Ability to plan and manage a caseload under pressure and apply a prioritisation case management model to work with families
- Be able to record relevant information succinctly, accurately and in a timely manner
- Communicate sensitively and clearly to a high standard both orally and in writing for a variety of audiences
- Be able undertake regular presentations at team meeting and in other settings to share and develop good practice in respect of family engagement and behaviour support
- Ability to review, monitor and evaluate casework to ensure effective practice and evidenced outcomes
- Able to negotiate effectively with other professionals interdepartmentally and across agency boundaries
- Able maintain IT systems for effective caseload management and team planning
- Significant and recent experience in direct with families including engaging families and assessing need leading to delivery of effective support for families
- Significant experience in establishing and maintaining positive professional relationships with individuals with complex and multiple needs
- Evidence of substantial experience of direct work with babies, children, young people and parents within variety of settings and communities and from a range of ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds-including those who may not have previously accessed services
- Able to contribute to the development and delivery of a programme of family support work including group work and community activities
- Ability to travel around the locality
Contact:
This Senior Early Help Navigator job is advertised by Michael Bowen; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
