Connect2Kent are looking for a full time temporary Early Help Worker in Ramsgate to operate as an early help worker within and Early Help Unit delivering early help interventions and targeted support to vulnerable children, young people and their families.

Manage a case load, providing a high quality, effective and responsive service for children, young people and their families, targeting support as required and at critical times and stages of development.

Duties

1. Hold a range of cases within an Early Help Unit, complete comprehensive assessments and deliver early help interventions and targeted support to vulnerable children, young people and their families.

2. Work closely with colleagues in the unit to deliver interventions and programmes with children, young people and their families in various settings including school, college, family home, youth clubs, children centres and other relevant community facilities.

3. Work with Early Help colleagues to deliver excellent, innovative Early Help services in a timely and effective way. To deliver excellent evidence based practice which will include service delivery within open access provision.

4. Establish rapport and build respectful, honest challenging and supportive relationships with children, young people and their families including those who may have had little contact with services and may be hard to reach.

5. Develop effective relationships with local agencies, partners and Early Help commissioned Services to ensure seamless provision of services across the district.

6. Share information about children and young people with other agencies in order to manage the risk to others, to safeguard them and promote their welfare in line with the requirements of all relevant legislation and guidance

7. Maintain all records to a high and consistent standard, in line with policy.

8. The postholder will be expected to work flexibly within a specific geographical area and across the 0-25 age range, including evening, weekends and during school holiday periods.

Knowledge:
- Understanding of child and adolescent development and knowledge of parenting skills
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and threshold criteria
- Knowledge of Early Help and Prevention and understanding of legislative and policy frameworks
- Knowledge and understanding of policy and practice developments relevant to children and young people
- Knowledge of relevant Inspection Frameworks
- Understanding of equality and diversity principles

A DBS check is required for this post at a cost of £54 unless you are on the update service and have a relevant transferable DBS check.

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Close date - 10/07/17

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