Family Practitioner - Apsley in Hemel Hempstead

Ackerman Pierce is recruiting for 2 Family Practitioner positions within the 0-25 Watford & 3 Rivers - WFH/Visits with Team Meeting, twice a month onsite. This opportunity is suited to a committed professional who can provide practical, relationship-based support to children, young people, young adults and families, helping them achieve greater stability, independence and positive outcomes.

The successful candidate will join an established local-authority service and work with colleagues, individuals, families, carers and partner organisations as appropriate to the assignment. The emphasis will be on timely, well-reasoned practice, clear communication and achieving safe, person-centred outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Provide direct support and agreed interventions with children, young people, young adults and families.
• Contribute to proportionate assessments, care planning, reviews and outcome monitoring under delegated authority.
• Identify safeguarding concerns, assess day-to-day risk and elevate matters appropriately.
• Work closely with schools, colleges, health, housing and community services to coordinate support.
• Promote independence, preparation for adulthood, choice and participation in the local community.
• Maintain accurate records and complete work within agreed professional and organisational standards.

Candidate profile

• Relevant experience within a paid or voluntary care, family-support or community setting.
• A caring and empathetic approach combined with good professional judgement and boundaries.
• Strong interpersonal, written and IT skills, with the ability to work as part of a multi-agency network.
• Able to manage risk, work reliably and respond constructively to complex family circumstances.

Service information and working arrangements

0-25 Watford & 3 Rivers

WFH/Visits with Team Meeting, twice a month onsite

To contribute effectively and professionally to the work of the '0 -25 Together' Service by providing appropriate responses to the children, young people, young adults and their families in need of support and taking appropriate safeguarding action as and when required. More broadly to support the delivery of the '0-25 Together' vision for a specialist service for disabled children, young people, young adults and their families with a focus on supporting people to reach their full potential, enabling their independence and ensuring that they can take part in their local community. The service will support young people and young adults until they are settled in adult life.

1. Responding to Need

• Provides professional response in situations where children, young people and adults need support. Using skills to inform trusted assessments, decision making and interventions.
• Trusted Assessments: Undertakes proportionate assessment of vulnerable children, young people and adults in accordance with current Children or Adult Social Care legislation.
• Completes care and support planning with children, young people and adults and their families to ensure the outcomes identified at assessment are met through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations.
• Undertakes Mental Capacity assessments and Best interest decisions where appropriate.
• Actively engages with, assists and provides advice to carers, conducts carer's assessments to enable them to sustain their caring role.
• Direct work with children/ young people who are going through the safeguarding or court process.

2. Ensuring effective safeguarding and risk management

• Identifies and takes appropriate safeguarding action (as determined by legislation and current HCC policy).
• Supports lead officers in safeguarding process.
• Effectively assesses and manages risk.
• Supports safeguarding investigations under the direction of a manager, social worker, occupational therapist or nurse.

3. Partnership Working

• To develop effective professional networks with partner agencies eg schools, colleges, youth connexions, health, housing and leisure to best support the child, young person, young adult to reach their full potential, enabling their independence and ensuring that they can take part in their local community.
• Develop, nurture and sustain links with settings in your locality area.

4. Promote independence & autonomy in preparation for adulthood

• Provides support where a person is constrained by social or family circumstances and provides support to achieve a reasonable degree of independence and autonomy.
• Uses a person-centred approach, developing creative and personalised solutions to assist children and young adults to manage their lives independently.
• Promotes independence and community wellbeing, choice and control within a personalisation framework utilising universal services and flexibility via the use of self-directed support.

5. Demonstrate HCC Values and Behaviours and Professional Standards

• Carries out duties in a timely and responsive manner, in line with HCC's Values and Behaviours framework.
• Maximises efficiencies in care planning through consideration of charging systems and other funding streams.
• Keeps and maintains accurate, up to date service user records, in line with professional requirements and departmental recording methods.

Qualifications and Knowledge:

• Clear knowledge and understanding of social and / or health care within the

community

• A qualification in care work or relevant other qualification
• Human rights legislation and how they protect the rights of adults
• The integration agenda - Working as part of a multi-disciplinary /multiagency team
• The personalisation agenda and applying creative problem solving to maximise independence

Relevant Demonstrable Experience:

• Experience of working within a paid or voluntary care setting with children and / or young people
• Risk management and positive risk taking
• Working with vulnerable adults and / or children within a health and social care setting • Involvement in multi-agency work

Skills and Abilities:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Is empathetic and caring when working with people
• Good written and IT skills
• Works within a scheme of delegated authority
• Works with complex situations and conflict and resolve people's complaints
• Assesses and record eligible and noneligible needs, drawing on evidence-based practice to inform your response
• Works within HCC Values and Behaviours Framework
• Motivated, reliable, dependable, self-confident with an ability

MUST BE A CAR DRIVER WITH ACCESS TO OWN VEHICLE