Childrens Services Practitioner

at  Action for Children

Salary: £23,500 - £27,600 per annum depending on experience
Location: Omagh / Enniskillen
Contract/Hours: Full-time (working 37 hours a week) on a fixed term contract for 1 year from start date)

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you’ll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 687,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It’s the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children’s lives.
About the service
The Family Support Hub is a multi-agency network of organisations that either provide early intervention services or work with families who need early intervention services. The network accepts referrals for families who need early intervention family support and uses their knowledge of local service providers and the Family Support Database (the NI wide database) at www.familysupportni.gov.uk to signpost families with specific needs to appropriate services.
The Early Intervention Family Support service aims to help children and their families work together at an early stage to explore solutions and prevent more long term problems from arising.
The project works with children 0-17yrs and their families.

The project hopes to achieve better outcomes for children and young people through:

• Building on the strengths of families
• Promoting parenting skills Increasing parents ability to nurture successfully
• Developing the resilience of children and young people
• Enabling families to use community resources and facilities

The project offers the following services based on assessed needs:

• Individual and group work for parents and children
• Home based support for parents
• Outreach community work in a range of urban and rural settings
• Family Group Conferencing

A bit about the role
We have 2 positions available, both are full time for a year. One position is for a Childrens Services Practitioner who will be working in the community delivering interventions and assessing need. The other is for a Family Support Hub Coordinator whose main role will be signposting families to organisations who can assist them.

Please refer the Job description for details