Early Help Officer Education

This is a full time permanent position. Are you passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of children and young people? We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our proactive Health and Wellbeing Team at Hull City Council. You will be an active partner working across health, education, social care, family help and VCSE services, to improve outcomes and support positive change for children, young people and their families.

This role will play an active role in empowering schools and colleges to implement national and local policy developments and system reforms, including the Schools & Wellbeing Act, Families First Partnership Programme, RSHE Statutory Guidance, the i-THRIVE Framework, and Whole School Approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health.

If the postholder requires a Standard or Enhanced DBS disclosure the candidate is required to declare full details of everything on their criminal record unless the conviction/s and/or caution/s are considered “protected” in line with filtering rules for DBS checks.

ROLE AND PURPOSE

• To be a key link for Early Help within primary schools, secondary schools, and post 16 providers. Work with and provide support to primary schools, secondary schools, and post 16 providers to promote and enable positive engagement with the Early Help Model. Support settings to adopt a Whole School & Post 16 Providers Approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health and Trauma Informed Care.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Strategy – To support the outcomes of Hull’s Early Help and Prevention Strategy by establishing an effective Team Around the School (TAS) approach to support early identification and prevention to improve outcomes for young people and families. Ensuring that TAS’s adopt a whole family, strengths-based approach to reduce risk and increase resilience. Coordinate and facilitate Hulls “Team Around the School” approach in order that schools and support agencies can effectively support vulnerable children in our schools / post 16 providers. Support all education settings to promote and enable positive emotional wellbeing and mental health by supporting settings to adopt a Trauma Informed/Whole Setting approach. Working in partnership, with the school/education setting Senior Mental Health Lead and services/provision that form part of the Thrive Hull offer.
2. Customer Focus – To work with partners in coordinating the day-to-day activities and programmes that support children, young people, and families through the TAS model. Support education settings to play their part in the delivery of the early help offer for Children and Young People (CYP) as part of an integrated, whole family approach. Support the ongoing implementation and support to Senior Mental Health Leads in schools and education settings. Act as first point of contact; signposting for TAS; whole setting approach to emotional wellbeing/trauma informed and mental health support leads in education settings. Support the promotion and delivery of workforce development opportunities for education settings, ensuring that emotional wellbeing, mental health and safeguarding training is developed in partnership with education professionals to ensure knowledge and practice is up to date and coherent across the local education system.
3. Performance Management – To support and contribute to evaluation, auditing and quality assurance including gaining the views and experiences of service users of current service delivery and their future expectations. Coordinate and implement actions between TAS meetings to ensure deadlines are met, children are kept safe, and organisations and professionals meet their accountabilities to the children and young people of Hull. Support and train the education sector to utilise evidence based tools such as the Outcome Star to support CYP and families and to access Early Help training such as the Hull Thrive training opportunities. To promote and support participation of young people in all aspects of service design, delivery, and review.
4. Leadership – Be a part of the wider management and leadership team for Early Help to improve outcomes for CYPF, through integration, and collaboration, with wider agencies across the Early Help system. To build new and existing partnerships with services who provide support to children, young people, families, and communities. Lead on the whole setting approach to emotional and mental health/trauma informed care.
5. Statutory Obligations - To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults ensure safeguarding and health and safety policies and procedures are in place and robustly implemented in accordance with the council policy and guidelines.

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:

• A competitive salary
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.