Early Help Advice Officer
Location
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear | United Kingdom
Job description
What's involved with this role:
Interim Early Help Advice Officer
Reference no: Sunderland EH Advice Officer Feb24
Pay Rate: £14.91 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 5-6 months
City: SUNDERLAND
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Provide support to the Early Help Advice and Allocations Team to ensure that effective early help support is allocated in a timely fashion to children, young people and families.
Key Responsibilities
Monitor the progress of Early Help Plans and Reviews, seeking updates from partner agencies where these are missing
Cleanse on a regular basis the operating system to ensure that all open cases are being worked
Query with all Co-ordinators of Early Help (Lead Professionals) any cases which have been open for more than 12 months
Provide data on early help to senior officers for the purposes of reporting and performance management
Maintain a data-base of Child Concern Notifications (CCNs) which come into the EHAAT inbox as part of Operation Encompass
Prompt schools to share with the Council the actions they have taken when in receipt of an Operation Encompass CCN.
Record those responses.
Provide data when requested on the frequency of Operation Encompass alerts and schools’ responses
Maintain such data bases and spreadsheets of activity as are required (eg Family Group Conferencing, RYPP, Phoenix, training log etc)
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via
[email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
Level 3 or higher qualification in an appropriate discipline, or experience of a similar post.
Level 2 English (Grade C GCSE or equivalent)
Level 2 mathematics (Grade C GCSE or equivalent)
Knowledge:
The problems faced by children, young people and their families nationally, regionally and locally
Legal framework pertaining to safeguarding and child protection
The Supporting Families programme
The Sunderland context and services available to support families
SEND Code of Practice
Experience:
Working with data systems and processes
Working in a challenging and pressured environment
Multi-agency, inter-disciplinary working
Relevant ICT packages
Skills & Abilities:
Communicate effectively with a range of audiences in a variety of formats (verbal and written)
Work flexibly and on own initiative
Able to work well under pressure
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Job Ref: Sunderland EH Advice Officer Feb24
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
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Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.
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