Healthy Family Support Practitioner 5-19 (25 with SEND)

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (ECFWS) brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group. The service, which is provided by HCRG Care Group in partnership with Barnardo's, ensures that families continue to have easy access to local services, with staff able to reach children and families in the community; whether in one of our Family Hubs or Delivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a family's home. This flexible and innovative new way of working is about providing services without walls and ensuring those families who need support the most are easily reached. Broad areas of support and service delivery are:

• Health Visiting
• Parenting Support
• School Nursing
• Family Health
• Resilience and Child Development
• Support for ages 0-19 (25 SEND)
Please see our website for further details www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk We are looking for a Healthy Family Support Practitioner working with children 5-19 (25 with SEND) in our Tendring area with skills and experience in Early Years, Childcare and Family Support . Healthy Family Support Practitioners will be working with children, young people, pre-birth-19 (up to 25 SEND) and/or their parents/carers, in their homes and in groups to increase the skills, confidence and abilities to live their daily lives in a positive and safe way. Practitioners will be working with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes. Healthy Family Support Practitioners will be providing universal and intensive targeted support aligned to the service outcomes. Utilise age appropriate evidence informed frameworks, for example the Early Years Foundation Stage, to plan and deliver high quality services that support parents/carers to enable their children to thrive, meet their full potential and to be school ready. As per NHS guidance this role will require successful applicants to evidence immunisations or immunity for MMR and Chicken Pox. This is due to the clinical focus of some tasks and the requirement to work with vulnerable families, young people and children The roles within this service may also require the successful applicant to wear PPE including the wearing of a protective mask, to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirements introduced by the Government/NHS.

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