Family Support Practitioner

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We are looking for a confident, compassionate and organised practitioner to deliver focused family support with a strong focus on early learning. This role combines practical support for families with children and delivery of child development interventions such as Making it REAL and Big Hopes Big Futures. You will also help build volunteer capacity, from supporting volunteers with resource bags to contributing to outreach, engagement and group work, depending on your experience. Duties and Key Responsibilities: Direct Support to Families Hold a small caseload of families with children delivering up to 2 hours of support per week on a short-term basis. Conduct home and community visits to support early childhood development, build resilience and improve family wellbeing. Work in a strength based and relationship building way, helping parents recognise and build on what they are already doing well. Deliver structured early learning interventions including Making it REAL and Big Hopes Big Futures. Support families to develop a rich and positive home learning environment. Volunteer Development. Act as the first point of contact for child development resources, ensuring they are maintained and distributed to volunteers when needed. Offer shadowing opportunities and depending on your experience, support small group learning or supervision. Help to provide ongoing guidance and encouragement to help volunteers build confidence and skills. Planning, Events & Outreach Work with the Lead Family Support Coordinators to deliver early learning events and community-based outreach. Help raise awareness of Home-Start Southwark services through local outreach and networking to increase referrals of families and volunteer recruitment. Develop good working relationships with a range of referrers and other professionals including health, education and social care. Monitoring, Recording & Partnership Working Carry out initial assessments, reviews and end visits with families. Liaise with referrers and other professionals. Make referrals to other organisations. Record all work accurately and in a timely manner using the CharityLog (our internal system for which training will be provided). Contribute to impact reporting by preparing case studies and success stories. Attend and actively contribute to team meetings, training and supervision. Follow safeguarding policies and escalate concerns following our procedures. Promote a safe, fair and inclusive environment for all families, volunteers and colleagues. General Help with occasional community outreach outside core hours when required. Support the wider Family Support Team as needed.
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Location:
Lewisham, Greater London

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