Local Government Jobs

Fixed-term contract/secondment up to June 2011

x 6 vacancies

Job service/overview

Camden’s Integrated Early Years Service (IEYS) delivers Children’s Centres (CCs) family support, health and outreach services through five multi-agency locality teams.

Children’s centres services are available to all families in Camden with a child under five years of age (including during the ante-natal period). Families with additional needs are offered support by our family support team, who help families to access the help they need.

You will work as part of our CC Locality team, taking a key role in linking with the local Safeguarding and Social Care team to provide support to children under five years of age and their families.

Key responsibilities

You will manage a caseload, carry out home visits and signpost families to services. This will involve assessment of children and family needs using the common assessment framework, assisting families to use local CC services and referral to more specialist services. You will work in partnership with families and other agencies, to ensure effective joint working, improving outcomes for children and their families in line with the Every Child Matters Framework.

Key requirements

In order to make a successful application you must demonstrate the following key requirements.

- Experience of working with families with children under five years of age.
- Knowledge of child development is essential as well as the ability to provide good quality assessments of children and families needs.
- Experience of working in partnership to support families and be able to confidently work with a range of statutory and voluntary agencies as part of the team around the child.
- A working knowledge of child protection and integrated working procedures is a key element of this role.

This position is subject to an enhanced CRB check.

Additional information

To help us deliver excellence and tackle inequality:

- We focus on our customers
- We work together
- We take personal responsibility
- We find better and cheaper ways

To make an application, please follow the “Apply for this job” link. During the application you will be asked how you meet the requirements for this job. Please refer to the key requirements section in this advert to construct your response.

If you have any questions about this process then please contact Suraj Pandit on 020 7974 4005.

Closing date: Sunday 12 September 2010 at 11.59pm

Assessment centre date: Thursday 30 September 2010