Family Practitioner Contract

Family Practitioner
Hackney
Contract
£18 P/H

We are currently recruiting for a Family Practitioner to work in Hackney within the Childrens service. The Children in Need Service delivers statutory and non-statutory assessments and family support interventions to children and families of all ages across the borough. The Units are led by Consultant Social Workers who support and direct the delivery of outcome focused family support aimed at supporting children to safely remain living within their own families and engage positively with universal services provided within the community.

The post holder will provide practical and evidenced based support to children and their families to promote improved parenting capacity and understanding of the developing needs of children as part of the overall work of the Family Unit. Interventions are delivered in the family home or other settings and support the parenting role and child behaviour through the application of evidenced-based methodologies that promotes positive family interaction, positive behavioural/environmental change and a good standard of care.

The Family Support Service works closely with a range of statutory and non-statutory services supporting the work of children’s services across the council through delivery of high quality, effective and outcome focused family interventions.

Family Practitioners, under the supervision of the Consultant Social Worker or , will contribute to the overall effectiveness of the service through applying a persistent approach in assessment and intervention activities with families using assessment, observation, task centred, behavioural and systemic approaches with children, young people and their families.

For more information please call Sam on 01616670021 or email