Early Help Co-ordinator

Working Hours: 35 Hours per week

Contract Type: Full time 

Additional Payments: Essential car user allowance

Closing Date: 03 March 2025

This role is subject to -

• Knowledge of database systems and reporting.
• Essential Car Documentation- This post is a designated Essential Car User. Therefore, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use at work. You will receive the Essential Car User Allowance.
• DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Appointable candidates will be required to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. 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. We have a policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders and it is available upon request.
• A good understanding of early help provision (including national guidance and statutory responsibilities) and experience of working in partnership with service leaders, practitioners and colleagues supporting early help.

• Our aim is to ensure children, young people and their families receive the right level of support, as early as possible, to tackle emerging problems and prevent issues from escalating by screening referrals and exploring whether early help is the right service.
• Part of the Co-ordinators role is building a strength-based positive relationship with staff and families. This involves working in partnership with staff, families and partners to identify what support needs to be in place to support and encourage sustainable change.
• The Co-ordinator will support practitioners to work directly with children and young people to understand daily lived experience and support parents to improve outcomes for children. The work may include support around CCE, CSE, Domestic abuse, housing, debt, budgeting, accessing food banks or direct work around parenting, behaviour management strategies and work around attachment and emotional dysregulation.
• The focus of early help is to improve family functioning and build the family's own capability to deal effectively with challenges, within a structured evidence based framework to deliver high quality support and intervention to children.
• The Co-ordinator will manage a team of staff and provide support, challenge and manager oversight to try to provide the best outcomes for children and their families.

• A minimum of three years' experience in a similar role or have skills that can be transferred 
• Knowledge of legislation, and policy around child safeguarding social work degree is desirable 
• Provide effective, quality and professional management and supervision
• Support Practitioners to engage with support services provided by both statutory and voluntary agencies
• Build effective, professional relationships with staff, children and families and partners
• Lead and support the team to understand factors that impact children and knowledge of ACEs
• Lead and undertake supervisions and manage attendance
• Lead on work with partner agencies to effectively support the whole family.
• Lead or take part in a number of meetings including DACC, AGS drop-ins and the Engage panel
• Have a professional, efficient, friendly, and caring approach to supporting staff
• Be an  excellent team member, having good time management, able to prioritise workload, multi-task and be flexible across their workday
• Have extensive knowledge around the early help assessments, assessing risk and can support staff to get the best outcomes

We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion. 

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here. 

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

• We take time to listen and understand
• We work together and trust each other
• We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
• We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
• We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council 

At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve.  We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.   

If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.   
 

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

Accessibility 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work. 

We’ve also included some useful tips on how to submit the best application.

When you join us 

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role. 

Other relevant information 

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