About us

The purpose of Early Help is to support families at the earliest opportunity to enable families to reach their full potential. Any professional working with a child, young person and family, such as those based in schools, health services, or in voluntary sector organisations, can provide early help services by responding to identified needs in order to offer advice and guidance, support and intervention. Early Help works best when it is offered at the right time to the whole family and when services are delivered jointly by professionals. Early Help is everyone’s business.

The role

We are the team that are responsible for supporting children and their families, when the overarching need is the child/young person’s additional needs. We support young people right through to the transition to adulthood. There are two full time posts available, that are fixed term until 31 March 2026.

• Complete Early Help Assessments and create robust support plans.

• Complete Short Breaks Allocation Tools to explore the option of short breaks support.

• Review any current packages of support through short breaks/direct payments.

• Attend Short Breaks panel.

• Hold and chair Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings.

• Multi-agency working in order to achieve the best outcomes for the children/young people.

• Connect families to appropriate support services, organisations and SEND activities.

• Whole family working.

• Complete Preparation for Adulthood referrals.

• Explore whether court of protection (COP) or deprivation of liberty (DOL) is appropriate.

• Explore whether the child or young person would benefit from a Continuing Health Care referral.

Our support is not limited to the above.

What's needed?

• DBS clearance required

• UK driving licence and access to own vehicle 

• Ability to communicate in English language both verbally and written 

• Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for further details

Benefits

As well as a competitive salary, working for us means you get:

• 26 days annual holiday - raising to 31 after 5 years of service (pro-rata)
• Access to our attractive and competitive benefits package
• Access to our Health & Wellbeing Programme
• Essential car allowance

Key Dates & Further Information

Should you want to discuss this further please contact Sally Bristow on 01925 817347 / [email protected]

Interview dates to be arranged

The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

If you are a permanent WBC employee you will need to apply for this fixed term position as an internal secondment opportunity and will need to discuss this with your current line manager prior to applying.

DBS clearance is required.

Warrington Borough Council is a Disability Confident employer