The Role

Would you like to make a difference to family mental health as well as children’s development & emotional wellbeing?

If you answered yes, then we’d love to hear from you!

Our Goals and vision:

Early Help Newpin model provides a range of interventions and support for children under 5 and their parents who are experiencing mental health problems and where Adverse Childhood Experiences are often a generational feature. Our aim is to ensure both the child and their adults get the support they need to thrive and achieve their potential. Our model harnesses the parent-child relationship, providing a

structured, supportive environment to increase parents’ capacity to develop understanding of their child’s communication, emotions, behaviour and needs and to reflect on the impact of their own mental health on their child/ren’s wellbeing.

About the team:

The borough's Early Help Offer is delivered through three THRIVE Wandsworth clusters. Newpin delivers support across all three clusters working in children centres as well as our main office located in Roehampton. Our team includes a range of professionals which includes family support workers and early years playroom practitioners working together to deliver targeted interventions to families on their mental health, parenting skills and their children’s wellbeing and development.

About the role:

This role will deliver the service’s provision in family support, targeted interventions, access to mental health services and wellbeing courses, facilitating parenting groups and classes, crèche, and outreach support, this can include working with families in their home and in the community.

You will provide support to families referred to the service in carrying out key actions to support the understanding of parent’s mental health and children’s wellbeing and development.

As a Family Support Worker, you will take the lead in delivering and developing the service which includes direct work with parents and children, community engagement events and facilitating group work. Working across all sites within the borough of Wandsworth you will be expected to travel within the borough and manage your schedule independently. 

You will have experience in managing safeguarding risk and providing interventions to families with complex needs (ideally which maximise the development of the parent-child relationship) and promote positive outcomes for children.

You will be expected to travel between sites based in Wandsworth (this does include ome visits).

At Richmond and Wandsworth Councils, we care more about how you work and what you achieve, rather than where you work on any given day. The difference you can make to our local communities is what really matters most to us, service delivery must always come first. We have carefully considered agile ways of working to provide the best experience for residents, stakeholders and our staff. Our agile working strategy actively supports and encourages a dynamic work environment and daily working experience. Agile working helps put the needs of our staff at the centre of everything we do, so if specific flexible working arrangements helps you with this, feel free to let us know.

Your wellbeing and the flexible way in which you can work is and will remain a key priority for Richmond and Wandsworth Councils. We want you to thrive and feel empowered in your work!

We recognise the importance of a good balance between work and home life so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working including, working from home, compressed hours, term time only, job shares and other arrangements. Please just let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process (and beyond) if these are options you’d like to explore.

We also offer a generous holiday allowance of 39 paid days (pro rata) including bank holidays and a wide range of learning and development opportunities. In addition, we offer a comprehensive range of staff benefits such as membership of the Local Government pension scheme, childcare vouchers, new technology scheme, interest-free loans on annual travel cards, discounts with many leisure activities, restaurants, shops and other establishments.

Indicative Recruitment Timeline:

Closing Date: Sunday 20^th March 2022

Shortlisting Date: W/C Monday 21^st March 2022

Interview Date: Wednesday 30^th and Thursday 31^st March 2022 (Please prepare 30 minutes for task and 45 minutes for interview)

Useful Information:

The closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. We strongly advise you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Please note that the advertised dates for interviews may change due to the current Covid-19 situation. If they do, we will let you know as soon as possible. Your health and wellbeing is our top priority. Should you become unwell due to Covid-19 during the recruitment process we would very much appreciate receiving an update from you as soon as possible.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

The application process for this campaign will be anonymised.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Important Information:

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils