Job Introduction
Are you passionate about support Children and Families?
You will coordinate and enable partners across Stafford to deliver effective Early Help, strengthening multi-agency practice so families get the right support at the right time.
Family Hubs enable families to get information, advice, guidance and appropriate support to meet their needs and overcome difficulties they may be experiencing.
You will join the Family Hub team in Stafford and be part of a wider team of Early Help Practice Development Officers, each assigned to one of the 8 districts within Staffordshire.
You will work collaboratively with partners within the Stafford district to develop, support, monitor and coordinate earliest and early help effective practice development and improvement to support children, young people and families.
Main Responsibility
As an Effective Practice Development Officer, you will:
- Lead and coordinate Effective Practice Development & Improvement across partners, supporting monitoring, collaboration and continuous improvement in Earliest and Early Help.
- Drive the Earliest & Early Help Transformation, contributing to multi‑agency integration through reports, analysis, project management, consultation and partnership work.
- Assess workforce needs and develop targeted training, working with Workforce Development Teams to address gaps in skills, knowledge and confidence.
- Provide hands‑on support, mentoring and challenge to managers and practitioners across sectors to strengthen and sustain high‑quality Early Help practice.
- Design, implement and evaluate new ways of working, including developing resources, practice models, processes and systems aligned with statutory services.
- Facilitate and coordinate local partnership activity, including Locality Partnership Hubs, ensuring effective information sharing, collaboration and use of community networks.
The Ideal Candidate
You will bring strong experience and credibility in Earliest and Early Help, with the ability to enable high‑quality early help practice across multi‑agency partners by building confidence, skills and consistency in frontline delivery.
You will also be,
- skilled in mentoring, coaching and practice development
- able to translate evidence‑based approaches into day‑to‑day practice
- confident in constructively challenging and supporting practitioners and managers to improve outcomes for children and families.
Through collaborative working, workforce development, quality assurance and the design of effective practice resources, you will strengthen integrated early help systems, ensuring families receive the right support at the right time, preventing escalation and enabling needs to be met early within communities.
For an informal chat, please contact Kasey Whiting – kasey.whiting@staffordshire.gov.uk or Kate Tomson-Rayner – kate.tomson-rayner@staffordshire.gov.uk
Interviews are planned for end of April
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
In the event we receive a significant number of applications, we may close this advert early. Please submit your application as early as possible.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
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