Early Help Consultant

Early Help Consultant
Early Help Service
Grade 10 | 37 Hours per Week | Permanent
Location: Across Bury localities (travel required)

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and families?
Do you enjoy supporting multiagency colleagues, strengthening partnership working, and shaping highquality early help practice?

This is an exciting opportunity to join Bury’s Early Help Service as an Early Help Consultant, a key role that provides expert advice, guidance and training to professionals across partner agencies who support children and families.

About the Role

As an Early Help Consultant, you will play a vital part in strengthening early intervention across Bury. You will:

• Provide expert support to partner agencies completing Early Help Story So Far Assessments (SSF) and developing effective Team Around the Family (TAF) plans.
• Lead and coordinate multiagency Family Help meetings, ensuring strong partnership working, clear planning and a shared focus on achieving positive outcomes for children and families.
• Offer guidance, challenge and problem-solving support when TAF plans become stuck or need refocusing.
• Deliver Early Help, Lead Professional and TAF training to a wide range of partner agencies, including schools, health services, voluntary and community organisations, and internal colleagues.
• Help ensure Early Help practice across all agencies is consistently high quality, outcomefocused and aligned with local procedures.
• Promote integrated working by building strong relationships across the partnership and supporting coordinated service delivery.
• Contribute to the implementation and ongoing development of Early Help policies, quality assurance, and service improvement.

About You

We are looking for someone who:

• Has strong experience working with children, young people and families.
• Can confidently advise and support partner agencies with assessments, planning and reviews.
• Understands Early Help processes, thresholds and multi-agency working.
• Is skilled in facilitating meetings, reflective conversations and solutionfocused approaches.
• Can deliver highquality training and communicate effectively with a range of external partners.
• Is organised, reflective and committed to improving outcomes for families.

Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week.