Early Help Interventions Practice Lead

We’re looking for an Interventions Practice Lead to join our Best Start for Life Early Help Team across Cheshire West and Chester.

If you enjoy working directly with families, like being part of a close, supportive team, and want the chance to make a real difference early on, this could be the role for you.

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

The Senior Practice Lead for Interventions will support and lead a team of intervention workers to co-ordinate, develop and deliver high quality, evidence based individual and group programmes for vulnerable parents/carers and children that achieve measurable outcomes. They will promote the approaches within local communities and Best Start Family Hubs raising awareness of effective, sustainable positive outcomes.

This will involve workers who support parents/carers of vulnerable children to improve parenting skills and family relationships and children and families impacted by domestic abuse to support recovery/behaviour change.

• ensures that all practice is underpinned by the Council’s our way of working ethos, ensuring all interventions offered have a think family approach and are trauma informed services.
• has experience of developing complex innovative and informed solutions to the challenges faced by others to achieve satisfactory outcomes.
• has experience of supervising staff, especially matrix models of working.
• has experience of working in a multi-agency environment.
• has experience of developing and delivering evidence-based and evidence informed parenting programmes in group or one to one basis that improve outcomes for children and families.

Above all, we’re looking for people who are approachable, committed and genuinely care about children and their families.

• We want to do our best every time, for every child and with every family.
• Competitive salary and working rewards
• Up to days’ flexi leave per year, in addition to annual leave
• Regular supervision and chances to reflect on practice
• We are proud to have a strong learning culture
• A supportive team culture where staff look out for each other
• Training and development to help you grow in your role
• Local government benefits, including pension and generous annual leave