Early Practitioner

As an Early Help Practitioner, you will work with children, young people, and families, assessing their needs and delivering high quality interventions on a one to one or group basis, and refer/signpost to other services which can support their needs.

Our family hubs provide a range of support to our local communities including parenting programmes, holiday activities as well as integrating with colleagues from midwifery, health visitors and other key services to provide families with a start of life offer that meets their family's need.

Early Help Practitioners deliver parenting programmes and holiday activities providing food from our Family Hubs to support our local communities, as well as working in an integrated way with colleagues from midwifery, health visiting and other services, to provide families with a Start for Life offer that fits their family's needs.

The successful candidates should have recent experience of working and supporting vulnerable children, young people and their families in the home and community settings, experience of group facilitation along with experience of delivering planned interventions leading to improved outcomes.

You will also require a Level 3 qualification in a relevant Children's Services field.

Durham County Council are on a continuous improvement journey in relation to its Early Help service. We are one of 75 Local Authorities who are part of the National Family Hubs programme, and have transformed our Family Centres into Family Hubs. This makes it an exciting time of change and development. During the recent Local Authority Ofsted inspection, Family Hubs were highlighted and the Authority given an over all Outstanding rating.

Family Hubs provide a universal 'front door' to families, offering a 'one-stop shop' of family support services across their social care, education, mental health, and physical health needs, with a comprehensive Start for Life offer for parents and babies at its core.

We offer a competitive rewards package that includes attractive salaries, a generous annual leave entitlement of 27 days (rising to 32 after five years' continuous local government service), membership of the excellent contributory career average Local Government Pension Scheme, and a range of flexible working arrangements including hybrid working (home and office) where applicable Explore the full range of rewards and benefits on our website.