Senior Family Practitioner (Team Manager)

Hackney Learning Trust is the Education department within Hackney Council.  It provides a range of statutory and traded services to support the education of children, young people and their families in the borough. We work closely with all types of schools and settings in the borough.

Job title Senior Family Practitioner (Team Manager)

Salary S02

Terms and Conditions 28.8 hours per week, 4 days a week Senior, Fixed-Term 01/07/2022 - 31/08/2022. If the successful candidate is already employed in the organisation their substantive role will be protected.

Hackney Learning Trust is a department within Hackney Council that is responsible for Hackney's Children's Centres, 27,000 pupils in 75 Schools and Early Years and Adult Education. Our vision is to provide excellent education for every child, young person and adult learner.

At Hackney Learning Trust, we know just how exciting Hackney's future looks. A future that's largely going to be determined by today's younger generation - the very people we're working so hard to help and develop.

At Ann Tayler Children’s Centre we are looking to appoint a dedicated Senior Family Practitioner, to join our early help multi-agency team. This is a good opportunity for a Family Support Practitioner in the service to gain further skill leading a team and case supervision, with ongoing support from the Cluster Quality Improvement Partner. You will lead to a high standard, our established team of family practitioners, who work holistically with families to increase parenting capacity and build resilience to support good child outcomes. The role involves empowering positive change within families through the supervision of the Family Practitioners, practice development meetings, group facilitation and outreach activities.

Significant professional experience of working with vulnerable families within a culturally diverse community is essential. You must also have good interpersonal and relationship building skills and possess good assessment skills.

You will be an experienced, suitably qualified practitioner with some experience of team manager or an eagerness to learn with an appropriate qualification in early years, teaching, social work, parenting or health. 

NB: This post requires an Enhanced DBS check. 

If you are interested in this job please contact: Biddy Hutton at Ann Tayler Children Centre, 02072756020

Interested?

Please apply via our website.

Closing date: 25th May 2022

Hackney Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. As this role involves regulated activity, the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check and additional pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.

Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, age and marital status. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people and people from a black and ethnic minority background as these groups are currently under represented in our workforce.