Family Practitioner

Salary - Grade 6 - £39,276-£42,771pa

Family Practitioner – Starting Well – MASH & Family Intervention/Early Help & Targeted Family Support

An exciting opportunity to join our Early Help Service as a Family Practitioner. You will work with children and families to provide targeted, individual and group interventions, improving outcomes for children and families, including intensive work with those in care.

• Manage a caseload of families with additional and multiple needs and attend court to give information on specific cases.
• Carry out whole family focused assessments of children and families, supporting them in home and community and building on strengths.
• Work directly with children and young people ensuring their voice is heard and incorporated into assessments and planning.
• Utilise training such as NVR (Non‑Violent Resistance Programme) to facilitate parenting workshops.
• Collaborate with the adolescent safeguarding service to support young people experiencing exploitation concerns (CCE, CSE) and transition from care to home.
• Travel to visits and meetings across the borough and nationally when required.
• Maintain good performance management and meet agreed performance indicators.
• Participate in regular 1‑2‑1 and case supervisions, performance appraisals and attend skills development sessions in line with London Borough of Havering policy.

• Experience delivering high‑quality, outcome‑focused support to children, young people and families.
• Ability to work collaboratively and build positive relationships and partnerships, internally and externally.
• Experience in systemic assessments and co‑producing effective outcome‑focused plans with families.
• Experience working with children, young people and families from a variety of backgrounds in either public or voluntary sector.
• Experience delivering effective parenting programmes and supporting practical parenting tasks.
• Experience preparing reports and assessments for children, including presenting to court.
• Effective engagement and communication with other agencies to carry out comprehensive assessments addressing identified needs for sustainable long‑term change.

The London Borough of Havering will consider applications irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. Applicants will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check where required.