Family Hub Practitioner 11-19

Role Responsibility

Family Hubs provide a place to get the local support and services families need. It might be a young person or parent/carer you support. With Kent Family Hubs, you can provide advice, support and services to help throughout a family’s journey, from newborns to 19-year-olds, or up to 25-year olds with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Family Hub Practitioners have a key role in Kent’s Family Hubs. This role focuses on young people in the 11-19 years age range. You will be responsible for running groups such as Compass which is a course based on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to the young people directly. You will be supporting young people on a 1-1 basis either within the home, school or Family Hub to educate or coach them through a challenge they currently have. The Hubs are placed at the heart of communities to enable families to access the help they need and provide the help they may need at the right time.  

We require a hardworking, committed and passionate person to join the Tonbridge and Malling District Family Hubs. Line managed and supported by motivated and experienced local managers, the role will involve working in a team as well as direct 1-1 work with families. You must be good at diary management to utilise your time well and be friendly and approachable to young people who need to build a trusting relationship with staff.

Your role will include: 

- Planning, delivery and evaluating activities whilst providing an environment that is welcoming and supportive to all young people who attend the sessions such as Compass or Holiday activities.

- Developing positive relationships with young people and sometimes their parent/carer to  provide information and targeted support through the services available. 

- Contacting clients by phone to offer visits and working with families in their homes, school or local community to provide support and advice.  

- Working as a team using our Family Hub Network of local partners and organisations including our colleagues in Early Help and Social Care, to provide services for children and families, working across the whole Tonbridge and Malling district. 

- Keep good notes about any work completed to ensure accurate records.

- Working in line with best practice by following current guidance and procedures to ensure both your own and client safety whilst achieving the best outcomes for young people.

If you are looking for a job with that combination of daily satisfaction and a varied week whilst making a difference to young people and families, then this could be the job for you. Training will also be provided in a range of exciting Family Hub projects that are being delivered as part of Kent’s Family Hub offer.

This part-time post will be based in Tonbridge Family Hub; however you will also be required to work across Tonbridge and Malling so will need to be able to travel across the district in a timely manner. 

The post is a permanent part time role for 24.5 hours per week, exact days and working patterns can be discussed but it will involve some evenings, usually 2 per week.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. 

Contact Details

For further information on this role, please contact:

Kaye Everhurst, Senior Family Hub Practitioner 11-19 

03000 415674

Kaye.Everhurst@kent.gov.uk

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