Enhanced Practitioner
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Job Introduction
We’re looking for vibrant and enthusiastic people to join our outstanding team providing support to families.
Within this role, you’ll work directly with families and will be responsible for supervising a team.
Main Responsibility
- Leads in co-ordinating the planning and reviewing of integrated service delivery and ensuring that assessed needs are met within the resources available.
- As the Lead for Safeguarding, the post holder will be responsible for safeguarding and embed this across the centre making sure all safeguarding and health and safety requirements for the premises and the staff are met, in line with Milton Keynes Council policies and procedures.
- Lead on the design and delivery of the children and family centre services programme that reflects and responds to local need. Ensuring that key partners are informed and involved in service development, delivery and evaluation and, in particular, encourage informed parental contribution.
- Develop and implement strategies, such as one to one and outreach sessions designed to engage with hard-to-reach families, promoting and encouraging their participation in children centres.
- Plan, promote and deliver a range of activities that support the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), including a range of universal and targeted Stay and Play, home visiting and outreach services, that support children and families through to school readiness.
- Provide support to case workers ensuring that Early Help assessments are completed accurately and in a timely manner. Support and lead a clear and consistent approach to monitoring and evaluating the work with children and families so that the impact can be regularly assessed.
- Co-ordinate and promote opportunities for volunteering, including offering appropriate accreditation of learning and experience.
The Ideal Candidate
- NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in a relevant early year’s qualification.
- ICT skills – able to use Microsoft Office.
- Enhanced knowledge of child development, ability to undertake risk assessments and put appropriate mitigating actions in place.
- Ability to manage a challenging workload with tight deadlines and experience of recruiting and managing a small team of staff and volunteers.
- Evidence of negotiation skills to influence partner organisations.
Package Description
We are really proud of the benefits we are able to offer our staff here at [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk], including:-
- Local Government Pension Scheme, considered to be one of the best employer contribution rates of 18.8%.
- 28 days annual leave per year in addition to statutory and public holidays, rising to 32 days after 5 years.
- Holiday Purchase Scheme.
- Our Professional Development Centre provides access to courses such as in-house management development programmes endorsed by the Institute of Leadership, coaching and mentoring and access to our Smarter Learning portal
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Health Cashplan.
- MK Advantage benefits package – a range of savings on a wide range of retail, leisure and entertainment products and services such as Pizza Express, M&S, B&Q, John Lewis and Arriva Travel.
- Blue Light Card - Employees working within Social Care can qualify for a range of discounts from national retailers to local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones and much more!
- SmartGo – Aimed at encouraging low-carbon transport and healthy lifestyle with discounted travel e.g. Halfords, Arriva, Europcar, National Railcards and Stagecoach.
- Homebuy Scheme (for eligible roles).
- Smarter working which provides the opportunity to work from various locations including from home for a proportion of your role (subject to business needs).
- A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity entitlements.
- Childcare Subsidy.
About The Organisation
Milton Keynes is a diverse, welcoming, and expanding place, built on smart ideas with even bigger plans for the future. We have world class attractions, beautiful open spaces, and a great standard of living.
[Employer hidden] is one of the largest employers in the region, making a difference every day for local people. We’re responsible for all local government services in MK including education, housing, highways, and social services - around 240 services in all.
Our values are to be dedicated, respectful, and collaborative. If this sounds like you, join us for a stimulating and fulfilling career measured on results, and a rewarding work-life balance.