Early Facilitator

About the Role

Are you an experienced, passionate, and confident practitioner with the tenacity and resilience to support, challenge, and motivate a multi‑agency workforce? Do you have a strong understanding of SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) and the ability to navigate and work effectively within school systems, processes, and statutory frameworks? If so, we are interested to hear why you would suit the Early Help Facilitator role.

Please include how you can contribute to networking, influencing and up-skilling a wide range of external partners and agencies across Leicestershire, ensuring Early Help is embedded across schools, health, housing, police, and more.

If you would like the opportunity to join this new and exciting team, please ensure you showcase your experiences, skills, and knowledge within Early Help, Education and SEND services. Please include how you will engage partners in your vision of implementing Early Help support across Leicestershire—ensuring families receive the right help at the right time. We are looking for a child‑focused, trauma‑informed, inclusive approach and an ability to work confidently within school processes such as safeguarding pathways, pastoral systems, attendance procedures, and SEND support mechanisms.

Your role will support and empower partners and colleagues to deliver robust, high‑quality Early Help for children, young people, and families.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Level 3 qualification in a relevant subject, e.g. social care, health or childcare, OR substantial experience in providing direct support to families that clearly demonstrates the experience, skills, competencies and knowledge outlined below.
• Experience of working with partners and of co-ordinating agency responses in complex cases to achieve positive outcomes for families with complex needs.
• Knowledge and awareness of issues which may have an impact on the lives of families such as domestic violence and abuse, mental health difficulties, substance misuse, poverty, housing. To include an understanding of, and compliance with, information sharing protocols and confidentiality.
• A good knowledge of child development and of interventions that promote children’s learning and development and an understanding of issues relating to school readiness, transitions and school attendance.
• Ability to motivate and inspire colleagues from a range of agencies to work together in the best interests of families, service providers and the wider community.
• Proven ability to recognise Child Protection issues and Safeguarding practice.
• An understanding of, and commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

Rachel Sharman (Team & Partnership Manager)

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Emily Hall (Team Leader)

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