Early Help Consultant

Grade I SCP 31 £41,771- SCP 35 £46,142 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963pa
Contract: Permanent
Essential Requirement: DBS, Full Driving License
Essential Qualification: A degree level qualification e.g. Social Work, Child Development, or a related degree level qualification.
Interview date: TBC
For further information about this role, contact Lauren Ashton lauren.ashton4@bolton.gov.uk

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to become a Early Help Consultant within our newly established Family Help Service. This role is an essential part of ensuring both the service and partnership are supported, to provide support to children and families at the earliest opportunity. The role will require you to work directly with partners to support early help practice and approaches across the partnership. The work also includes delivery of workforce training and development across Family Help and the wider partnership. As part of our ongoing commitment to practice improvement, the Early Help Consultant will also support quality assurance activity to support practice improvement across the wider Early Help system.
The role will offer responsive, flexible and tailored support and will require close working with partners to ensure the offer of early support for Children and Families is offered consistently and at the earliest opportunity. You will build strong relationships with partners to facilitate and encourage the use of early help approaches and assessment. You will work as part of a team to support the partnership and work across the Family Help locality-based teams.

We are open to flexible working and have a range of options; we and are happy to discuss this further.

For an informal discussion about the role or if you would like to come and meet members of the service please contact:
Lauren Ashton lauren.ashton4@bolton.gov.uk
About You
You will be focussed on relational practice and be able to quickly build relationships and rapport with colleagues both internal and external team and have experience building effective relationships across diverse partners.
You will bring a strong understanding and experience of Early Help, safeguarding and multi agency working, with the confidence to offer consultation, coaching and constructive challenge.
You will be skilled in analysing need, developing and delivering tailored training and influencing practice.
You will be able communicate clearly, draw on your experience of complex casework, and support others to strengthen early intervention and improve outcomes for children and families.
If you think you could be what we're looking for, apply now with your CV and covering letter.
Within your covering letter with specific reference to the job description and person specification please demonstrate:

Your experience of working with children, young people and families, including experience of delivering interventions with children, young people and families, achieving positive outcomes
Your experience and understanding of family support work including solution focussed interventions and restorative practice to support empowering approaches with families.
Your knowledge of Family and Early Help and your understanding of the complexities in this area of work
Your experience of partnership working to improve outcomes for children and families.

About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances. For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk