Contract Type: Permanent and fixed term contract (until 31st March 2025)

 

Contract Reason: Secondment Cover

 

Secondment Opportunity: Permanent employees are encouraged to apply and will be supported as part of our workforce development commitment. 

 

Salary: Full time Grade F. Scale 17 – £28,770 to Scale 22 - £31,364

Part time Grade F. Scale 17 - £14,385 to Scale 22 - £15,682 (actual salary)

 

Hours: Full time 36 hours per week

Part time 18 hours per week

 

Base Location: Various locations across the borough

 

Closing Date: Tuesday, 9th April 2024

 

Assessment Date: To be arranged

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Early Help Service; we are seeking to recruit a number of experienced, enthusiastic, motivated Family Help Lead Practitioners, to work across the continuum of need, who are passionate about meeting children’s needs and seeking great outcomes for children and their families.

 

As part of the team you will work flexible across 7 days, on a rota basis working between the hours of 8am to 8pm daily.  You will also be required to link closely with the out of hours services.  

 

The role is to coordinate services and deliver evidence based interventions to families experiencing multiple and complex issues throughout the continuum of need.  The successful candidate will take a whole family approach and work across services to effect real change for families. The successful candidates will be expected to take a lead or key role in working with families, working in partnership to challenge and negotiate traditional organizational boundaries for ensure the best outcomes are achieved for children and young people. 

 

Candidates must have excellent communication skills which will enable them, to undertake effective family engagement which builds on a family’s strength and coping strategies, incorporating a strong degree of challenge for families to change, supporting and enabling them to resolve multiple and complex difficulties leading to sustainable change.

 

The Early Help service has a strong ethos of working in a multiagency environment, developing and maintaining strong professional relationships with partner agencies to ensure services can affect positive and lasting change with families.

 

A strong knowledge and experience of assess, plan, do, and review to ensure quality provision is provided to families while using the Signs of Safety model to planning interventions as a part of a multi-agency approach. This will require you to undertake the lead professional role with some families’ whist supporting other agencies where they are lead professional.

 

In return, we offer a competitive salary, a minimum of 26 days leave (plus 8 bank holidays), 36 hours working week, membership of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, which is a Local Government Pension Scheme and much more.

 

To find out more about our rewards and benefits package click here

 

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

 

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.  We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do. 

 

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

 

If you believe, you meet the essential criteria for this role we would like to hear from you. 

 

For informal discussion please contact Liz Mandiyanike, Team Manager on Liz.mandiyanike@tameside.gov,uk 

 

 

This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.

 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

 

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

 

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We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers carers and ex-military personnel. Please click here for more information on our guaranteed assessment scheme.

 

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer.  Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.