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Family Hub Practitioner 11-19 (25) – Tunbridge Wells District
An exciting opportunity has arisen to joint the newly formed Family Hub team in Tunbridge Wells District. The successful candidate will operate as a Family Hub practitioner within the Family Hub team in an agile fashion at a variety of outreach settings (including home visiting) within a district providing 1:1 and group support to Young People and their families. The role will work closely with integrated children’s services team and with a range of multi agency partners including schools, police, district council and community organisations to provide support for vulnerable young people and their families.
The post will facilitate and support peer groups, and be knowledgeable to support and encourage young people and their families to take advantage of the Family Hub Digital and Virtual offer and other routes of advice and guidance. They will be able to provide expert guidance to families about young people’s development and the pressures young people face to enable them to support their child to achieve health, wellbeing, and education outcomes.
You will be expected to work flexibly across the 11-19 (25 for young people with SEND (Special Education Needs and Disabilities) age range but may also be required to support work across the wider age range where needs arise in the district.
You will be expected to operate a Whole Family approach in their practice and work around the times of the Family. As such, this post will be expected to work flexibly including, on occasions, at evening and weekends, and will be co-ordinated by Management as required.
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.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
