Child and Young Person Practitioner

Are you a practitioner looking to grow your experience working with children, young people and families in the community? As a Children and Young People Practitioner, you'll help young people build knowledge of self-care, autonomy and decision making, supporting their health and wellbeing and empowering them to make positive life choices. Working under the delegation of a School Nurse, you'll deliver components of the Healthy Child Programme 5-19 (up to 25 for SEND) across mainstream schools, homes and our Family Hubs, providing targeted interventions and groups for children and young people at risk of poor outcomes or with complex needs. HCRG Care Group works in integrated partnership with Barnardo's as the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, supporting families from pre-birth to 19. You'll join a skill-mixed Healthy Family Team of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Support Practitioners and Engagement Workers, in a service rated "Good" by the CQC and focused on outcomes, not just numbers. Ready to make a difference in your community? Apply today and help us improve outcomes for children and families in the community, for the community, with the community., As a Children and Young People Practitioner, you'll:

• Work in collaboration with School Nurses to meet the health needs of children and young people, helping them develop self-care, autonomy and decision making, including how to access health services.
• Deliver aspects of the Healthy Child Programme 5-19 pathway as delegated by the School Nurse.
• Provide brief intervention and solution-focused support on issues including emotional wellbeing, exploitation, sexual health, relationships, substance and alcohol misuse, risk taking and healthy lifestyles, in schools, homes or Family Hubs.
• Deliver targeted health promotion campaigns through school drop-in clinics, assemblies and community outreach.
• Work with parents, carers, and statutory and voluntary partners to identify and respond to young people's and families' needs.
• Manage your own workload under the supervision of the School Nurse and contribute to Key Performance Indicators and outcome measures.
  
  We're looking for someone who:
• Has a passion for helping children have the best possible start in life and through key transitional stages.
• Has a keen interest in children, young people and the public health agenda.
• Has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and is confident speaking to large groups such as school assemblies.
• Has excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Is confident using IT systems, including Outlook, Word and Excel.
• Holds a valid UK driving licence and has access to a car for work.
  
  We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.


• A salary of £31,710 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year