Early Help Worker
CurrentTo act as a key worker for families with a range of needs undertaking Early Help Assessments and delivering appropriate interventions as well as coordinating interventions delivered by other agencies and supporting families with children subject to Child Protection and Child in Need Plans. This will include direct work with children and young people as well as delivering parenting interventions to improve outcomes for families across a range of needs including those set out in the DCLG Troubled Families Programme and Lincolnshire’s Families Outcome Plan.To support and challenge agencies and families to bring about lasting change, to increase the resilience of the family and decrease any dependencies on public services. When families refuse to engage or make the necessary changes required Key Workers will work with partner agencies to utilise when appropriate possible sanctions that exist in order to facilitate change.To support young people 0-19, to move successfully through education intoadulthood and working life through targeted interventions.To support the delivery of quality personal and social development opportunitiesfor young people, and deliver targeted interventions with young people engagingin or at risk of engaging in anti-social behaviour, and/or exclusion from school.To provide a duty service to support young people who present as homeless, wherever possible ensuring young people are supported to remain in their family home.
