Early Help Family Support Practitioner

Posted 17 March 2026
Salary 29.89
LocationHackney E2 United Kingdom
Job type Contract
Sector Social / NGO / Health & Care
Reference123906

Job description

3-Month Contract with a Local Authority

Summary
  • Join our team as an Early Help Family Practitioner, where you will play a crucial role in delivering interventions within a multi-agency system. Your work will provide intense support to families with multiple and complex needs. You will conduct child-centered holistic family assessments using evidence-based tools to identify adverse childhood experiences and factors impacting family functioning. Your efforts will aim to increase resilience, enhance parenting capacity, and promote strong child-parent attachments to support positive child outcomes.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as an Early Help Family Practitioner following the Hackney Family Support Practice Guidance and Multi-Agency Team protocol.
  • Foster an environment that safeguards children, ensuring adherence to appropriate safeguarding procedures.
  • Provide structured and individualized support to children and families using assessment tools like Hackney’s Early Help Assessment Form, and create individual plans with agreed outcomes, targets, and review dates.
  • Act as the lead professional for families, coordinating and sharing information at MAT Meetings, and leading team meetings around the child.
  • Support parents/carers through targeted home work, group activities, and coordinated services, addressing barriers such as housing and financial issues.
  • Coordinate and deliver parenting groups to help parents/carers understand their child’s needs and enhance their parenting skills.
Requirements
  • Significant experience working with children and families.
  • Experience providing parenting support and delivering parenting programs, groups, or forums to vulnerable families with complex needs.
  • Experience offering advice, information, and guidance to families to build resilience and capacity.
  • Experience with a child-centered and outcomes-based approach in work with children and families.
  • Experience visiting and delivering interventions in family homes.
Essential Qualifications
  • Minimum Level 3 qualification in childcare & education, primary education, work with parents, health, or social work.
  • Level 4 Award in Work with Parents.
Additional Information
  • Enhanced DBS required for the role.
The role closes on 19th March 2026, apply ASAP.