Early Help Family Support WorkerDuration: Initially 3 monthsHours: 35 hours per weekRate: £28 umbrella an hour (£21 PAYE an hour)Lewisham Council are looking for an Early Help Coordinator to join their MASH Team. This role is a non-case holding role.Responsibilities:

• Provide training and scaffolding support to professionals across the partnership.
• To develop, facilitate and coordinate working relationships and partnerships with a range of front-line staff and managers
• Coordinate multi agency support across services to meet the needs of vulnerable children, young people and families by providing information advice and guidance to professionals
• Use negotiating and influencing skills to identify and enable different agencies to undertake lead professional responsibilities
• Undertake reviews of FARPs to ensure that progress is occurring to plan and timescales
• Deliver and design training and support to local practitioners

Requirements:

• An understanding of the spectrum of early help services and be able to guide/match the family to appropriate services based on information presented by referrer/family
• Experience working as a Family Practitioner within an early help service
• NVQ level 4 gained in a setting associated with children or young people and families or substantial professional experience