Family Support Practitioner

Job summary

Are you an experienced early years practitioner or staff nurse looking for a new challenge?

North Northamptonshire Best Start in Life Nurturing Families Pathway have an exciting opportunity to join the Tiny Steps team delivering an intensive home-visiting, semi-structured programme of support and education to families who face challenges in their parenting journey from the antenatal period until the child reaches one year. We are looking for an enthusiastic and capable member of staff who has a sound knowledge of child development and public health objectives to play an important role in the delivery of the programme.The practitioner will be based with the local Family Nurse Partnership team, supported by the Named Family Nurse and working locally with the 0-19 teams and Named Tiny Steps Health Visitor. The successful applicant will deliver a personalised programme of visits to individual families within a designated caseload, within the family home.

Main duties of the job

The Tiny Steps programme includes a core programme of designed and structured sessions and a library of resources which can be used to create bespoke and individualised interventions to meet the unique needs of each family, the successful applicant will be confident, empathic and flexible in their approach, able to make changes to planned interventions during sessions to achieve the desired outcomes. They will receive regular individual restorative and safeguarding supervision and wider supervision with the relevant team members.

This role would suit an advanced nursery nurse or staff nurse who has the in-depth knowledge, skills and experience to give clinical advice and supervision to Health Visiting team colleagues in relation to delivering enabling interventions with families in need of additional support.This role requires resilient, well trained staff and a full training package will be in place prior to full commencement of the role. Please note this is a full time position.

The successful candidate will require excellent communication and team working skills and be able to build effective and positive relationships with service users, colleagues and partner agency staff.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Wellingborough and East Northants Locality

Based from Campbell House Northampton / Isebrook Hospital Wellingborough

Wellingborough

NN8 1LP

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Wellingborough and East Northants Locality

Based from Campbell House Northampton / Isebrook Hospital Wellingborough

Wellingborough

NN8 1LP

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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