Early Help Support Worker/s

Job Introduction

Job Title: Early Help Support Worker

Location: Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP) area

Salary: Specialist Grade G

Job Type: Full-time and part-time permanent and fixed term (Maternity cover) positions available 

 We are committed to improving the quality of life for the people of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole by delivering high-quality services that secure positive outcomes for children, young people, and their families.

As an Early Help Support Worker, you will be a key member of the Early Help and Targeted Intervention Service, working peripatetically across localities or the partnership team. Your role will involve delivering high-quality interventions to support children and young people aged 0-19 and up to 25 with SEND aiming to improve outcomes and build parental capacity, strengths, and resilience. This will involve work with young people that are not in education, employment or training, young carers, those children and young people who are on the edge of care or returning to their families after being in care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality programmes, targeted groups, and individual interventions within Family and Young People Hubs, schools, and other venues.
• Plan, deliver, and evaluate programme activities for children and young people aged 0-19 and up to 25 with SEND, providing feedback to managers.
• Undertake observation, assessment, direct work and progress tracking to measure outcomes.
• Engage with community, voluntary providers, and partner agencies to support access to Early Help services across the BCP Partnership.
• Act as a case-holding lead professional, undertaking assessments and creating intervention plans.
• Ensure the child/young person/family is at the centre of professional planning and intervention.
• Participate in community and cluster meetings/events, building collaborative relationships with partners.
• Maintain high-quality, engaging learning environments within Family and Young People Hubs.
• Apply principles of anti-discriminatory practice to ensure dignity and respect for all children and young people.
• Organize and participate in regular consultation events with service stakeholders.
• Work under the direction of the team manager or Senior Practitioner, engaging in reflective case supervision.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum NVQ 4 in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Sound knowledge of child development (0-11 years) and/or adolescence (11-19 years).
• Experience in completing observations, written assessments, and making evidence-based decisions.
• Proven experience in delivering direct interventions that improve outcomes for children, young people, and parents/carers.
• Working knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory guidance.
• Understanding of safeguarding and child protection.
• Good understanding of Early Help Services across BCP.

Personal Qualities and Attributes:

• Ability to build supportive, positive, and trusting relationships.
• Committed to continuous professional development and able to coach and mentor others.
• Solutions-focused with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to plan and organize workload in a changing environment with competing demands.

Job Requirements:

• Enhanced DBS check.
• Ability to travel across the BCP area using public or other forms of transport.
• Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends.

 If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of children, young people, and families, we would love to hear from you.

Proposed interview dates- 20 and 21 March 2025

For further information on this post or an informal discussion please contact a Service Managers- Nikki Dilke at Nikki.dilke@bcpcouncil.gov.uk , Nina Wilson at  nina.wilson@bcpcouncil.gov.uk or Gaye Wright at gaye.wright@bcpcouncil.gov.uk

About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people.  Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline.  We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services.  By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

Our Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils. 

We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward.  If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.

DBS

BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.