Strengthening Families Practitioner - West

# Strengthening Families Practitioner - West## About the role
** Do you have the skills and experience to build positive, trusting relationships with parents, children, and young people—helping them make positive changes and improve life opportunities?
** We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with excellent interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills to join our dedicated team as a Strengthening Families Practitioner.

Strengthening Families is part of our Children and Family Support Services.  Using a multi-agency approach, the service offers intensive support to children, young people and families with identified complex needs, to support and empower them to achieve good outcomes. The service delivers a range of interventions from direct work with families using a Family Help approach, to parenting and domestic abuse groups, and works collaboratively with partners to create a supportive team around the family to help families to sustain changes.

You will be based in one of our Family Hubs (either Daventry and Towcester) in the West of Northamptonshire, working as part of a hard-working team committed to improving outcomes for families.
* Interviews will be held week commencing 20th July*### What will you be doing? You’ll manage a caseload of families and act as a lead professional or co-worker, delivering structured one-to-one family support and group work. You will:
• Carry out whole-family needs and risk assessments and develop tailored support plans.
• Coordinate services and partner agencies to ensure families receive the right support at the right time.
• Have extensive, hands-on experience in preventative work with children and families facing escalating, complex needs.
• Work intensively with families in their homes, using creative and evidence-based interventions to bring about positive change.
• Have excellent communication skills, written and verbal.  You must be able to write assessments and support plans by building positive relationships with families.
• Provide practical advice and interventions around parenting, child development, household routines, and access to health, housing, and employment support.
• Participate in safeguarding processes, case reviews, and multi-agency meetings and have a good understanding and experience of partnership working.
• Work on your own initiative and as part of a team
• Lead Team Around the Family meetings

This role requires frequent travel across an extensive geographic area where public transport can be limited.

Your work will make a real difference—helping families overcome challenges and achieve better outcomes for their children.

We welcome the opportunity to speak to any interested candidates so if you've read the job description and still have questions, please feel free to email:
and they can arrange a mutually agreeable time to call you
* We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.*### About you You’re passionate about supporting families and have:
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal—you can build strong relationships and write clear assessments and support plans.
• A good understanding of evidence-based interventions and how they support positive change.
• Experience of partnership working and the ability to collaborate effectively with other professionals.
• Flexibility and creativity in the support you offer to families.
• The ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
• A Level 3 qualification in working with children, young people, and families or substantial experience in this area.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

If you’re ready to make a difference and meet the qualifications, knowledge, and skills outlined in the job specification, we’d love to hear from you.

When applying
** please ensure your supporting statement details how you fulfil the essential criteria set out in the person specification
** as this will be used for shortlisting. You will need…