Job Introduction
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Child and Family Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team and support our Health Visitors in delivering the Healthy Child Programme (0-5), ensuring positive outcomes for families. This rewarding role will see you working closely with families, providing feedback on outcomes, and supporting the facilitation of local healthy family drop-ins. Additionally, you will plan, deliver, and evaluate virtual health promotion sessions aimed at improving family wellbeing.
This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week), though we are open to considering applicants who prefer to work 30 hours per week. The role is based at our Derby Court location in Trowbridge. A valid UK driving license and access to a car for work-related travel are essential.
Main Responsibility
As a Child and Family Wellbeing Practitioner, you will:
- Work directly with families, under the guidance of Health Visitors, to deliver support and feedback on outcomes.
- Assist in facilitating local healthy family drop-ins to promote family health and wellbeing.
- Plan, deliver, and evaluate virtual health promotion sessions, leading discussions with groups of parents and carers.
- Conduct Ages and Stages 27-month reviews, incorporating the Early Sign Language Identification Measure tool.
- Provide evidence-based “Support Bundles” to families, under the direction of the Health Visitor.
- Ensure effective communication and appropriate information sharing with partner agencies.
- Collaborate with Health Visitors to assess child development and growth.
For a full list of responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who:
- Holds a qualification such as NNEB, CACHE Diploma in Childcare and Education (DCE), HNC in Childcare and Education (Scotland), or Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DELEXCEL).
- Has a strong understanding of child development, parenting, and the ability to apply behavioural programmes effectively.
- Possesses excellent communication skills and can engage with individuals from diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
- Demonstrates the ability to develop and implement action plans in partnership with clients and their families.
- Has good interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to working with colleagues and partners.
- Is committed to maintaining and updating professional, clinical, and knowledge skills.
A UK driving license and access to a car for work-related travel are essential for this role.
For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
Package Description
As a Child & Family Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at Derby Court Trowbridge. You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £2400- £26,500 salary and Group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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