Senior Family Hub Practitioner

Role Responsibility

Role Responsibility

To operate as a Senior Family Hub practitioner within the Family Hub team in an agile fashion at a variety of outreach settings (including home visiting) within a district providing 1:1 and group support to children and their families. This will include delivery of focused support to identified children, and families where increasing complexity means that the family may need extra support to prevent escalation and ensure families with complex needs are supported effectively through community services. This may also include digital and online support.

The post holder will be required to provide management support and leadership on behalf of the Family Hub District Managers as appropriate. The postholder will be expected to work flexibly across the 0-11 age range but may also be required to support work across the wider age range where needs arise in the district. The post holder will be expected to operate a Whole Family approach in their practice and work around the times of the Family. As such, this post will be expected to work flexibly including, on occasions, at evening and weekends, and will be co-ordinated by Management as required. 

Main duties

• To support the delivery of focused support to identified children and families where increasing complexity means that the family may need extra support to prevent risks escalating. This may also include digital and online support.
• To provide expert guidance to Family Hub practitioners and ensure best practice
• To allocate requests within a timely way, to the right service ensuring that there is robust recording, rationale, timescales, and deadlines. This could include digital, online, community and multi-agency services as well as KCC (Kent County Council) and Health.
• To work closely with integrated children’s services team to ensure a seamless approach to support for the child and family.
• To work in partnership with a range of multi-agency providers including Health Visitors, Midwives, Schools, Early Years providers to identify patterns and trends in community needs and develop services accordingly in line with community feedback.
• To provide practice supervision to Family Hub practitioners, ensuring high quality 1:1 and group work interventions are taking place and recorded in line with standards.
• To take on lead areas as required e.g., Perinatal Mental Health to support development of quality practice and standards in line with county and district priorities within Integrated Children’s Services.  
• To regularly provide reflective practice to support the learning and development of the FH practitioners and ensure that performance indicators are understood and met by the FH team
• To work to strengthen the resilience of children and families by supporting them to access Digital services and information and guidance.  
• To ensure that the lived experience and voice of the child is central to all planning and delivery of support. 
• To ensure that Children and their families are supported to participate in developing service design and service delivery as part of the co-design principle of Family Hub
  
  

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

For Further Information On The Role, Please Contact

Natasha Hickmott - 03000 413988

[email protected]

About The Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

Job Description & Person Specification

• Senior Family Hub Practitioner 0-11 JD.pdf