Description
As an Early Intervention Service (EIS) Practitioner, you'll be part of our valued team based at Harlow Family Hub.
Your primary role will include delivering formulation-led, trauma-informed early intervention to help children and young people.
You will use the Framework for Integrated Care to assist in building resilience and strengthening support networks around them.
Responsibilities include managing a caseload, building relationships with children, schools, and communities, and delivering targeted support.
In addition, you will work flexibly across different environments to meet the needs of those you serve.
This is a fixed-term position for two years.
Main Responsibilities:
- Hold and manage an allocated caseload of children, young people, and families requiring targeted early intervention support.
- Use the Framework for Integrated Care and Rule of 167 to identify, understand, and strengthen the relationships that matter most in a child or young person's life, increasing their sense of belonging, connectedness, and inclusion.
- Build trusting, purposeful relationships with children, young people, and families, and work creatively to engage those who may find it difficult to access traditional support services.
- Deliver direct, targeted, and time-limited work in line with the agreed formulation, goals, and intervention plan.
- Contribute to formulation and multi-agency discussions with education, CAMHS, and Mental Health Support Teams, social care, early help, youth justice, and voluntary and community sector partners.
- Work with schools, parents/carers, and trusted adults to develop practical strategies that can be used consistently in the child or young person's everyday environment.
- Provide consultation, coaching, and practical support to schools, families, and partners, and contribute to group work, workshops, or training where agreed.
- Strengthen natural support networks and promote participation in community, educational, recreational, and social opportunities.
- Recognise changes in need, risk, or complexity and discuss these promptly with the EIS Senior Practitioner.
- Maintain accurate, timely records and capture feedback from children, young people, families, and partners to inform service improvement.
Benefits:
- A salary of £31,710 with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping, as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing, from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year