Family Hub Engagement Practitioner -Navigation Team
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Apply before 23:55
Westgate Plaza, Barnsley, Barnsley Hospital (Hybrid)
Permanent, Full time
Enhanced DBS check required
£23,500 - £23,893
37 hours
Like all of us here at Barnsley Council, you care about children and their families. So you’ll relish this opportunity to play a key part in ensuring that children have access to quality early years education enabling them to achieve their potential.
Creativity, ambition and a focus on people. That’s what matters at Barnsley Council. Our award-winning council is on an exciting journey of change. It’s all about putting local people at the heart of everything, listening to and doing good for our communities. We’re now more innovative, more efficient and provide better value for money. The changes are clear to see - from new businesses and jobs, to improving school results and to museums being recognized for their community engagement.
Your role in our journey
An EXCITING OPPORTUNITY has arisen within the Early Start and Families Service for a Family Hubs Engagement Practitioner to work as part of our Early Help Navigation Team based at Barnsley Hospital. The role is full time 37 hours per week working on a rota system between the hours of 8am- 6pm (Monday- Friday) on a permanent basis with some occasional evening and weekend working.
The role will be working with children, young people and their families 0-19 years, 25 years with a disability at the point of their attendance at Barnsley hospital working both in Accident and Emergency Department and wards throughout the hospital, listening to the voice of the child and family to identify and support families to access early help services and support to meet their needs.
This role is for someone interested in making a difference to the lives of children and their families in Barnsley. Offering early intervention support, strategies and direct work to those families who need it the most, delivering support at the right time to prevent further escalation of need.
You will need knowledge of services provided by Family Hubs and other agencies within the scope of early intervention and prevention as well as a good sound understanding of child and family development.
The ability to use your initiative, work as part of team and have creativity and passion to work alongside multi agency professionals is essential.
What you’ll need
A Level 3 in a relevant field or equivalent qualification alongside knowledge of early help and multi-agency working.
You will also need to evidence that you have relevant experience of working with children and families.
Your communication skills, flexible approach and flair for building relationships will really set you apart.
A lot to look forward to
Barnsley is a place of possibilities. Our Barnsley 2030 Strategy details how we will work together to make Barnsley the best place it can be. This is an exciting time to join us, and the team has strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, making our work more effective in meeting the needs of our population and tackling health inequalities.
Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. We offer a full induction programme, and excellent training packages to enable you to have the right skills to do your job, including regular supervision to help you recognise your continued professional development needs and support you to achieve your potential.
We offer working conditions that are flexible and agile that support good life work balance. By working together, with each other and with our communities, we can take pride in improving lives. There is so much happening in our thriving Borough and your talent and skills will help make Barnsley a place of possibilities.