Early Help Worker


Company:	Wax Recruitment Ltd
Salary:	from £17.37 an hour
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Liverpool, L21 4NB
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	24 Aug 2026
Closing date:	23 Sept 2026

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Summary

Job title: Early Help Worker

Job Category: Social Care Non-Qualified

Location: 39 Caradoc Road, Seaforth, Liverpool, Merseyside, L21 4NB, Sefton MBC

Hours per week 36

Salary: £17.37 per hour

The requirement for the post is due to a shortfall in early help staff based in the Bootle area and a shortfall of family support workers based in help and protect

JOB PURPOSE 1. To engage and empower children, young people and families through working alongside them in a strengths-based way to provide the right help at the right time

2. To deliver appropriate interventions, activities to engage, empower and enable families to find their own solutions to their issues and to develop resilience.

3. To be responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, Young people (0 – 19), their families and adults by delivering high quality interventions, acting as their single point of contact, coordinating a holistic, multi agency support plan for children and their families

4. To promote engagement with universal and the voluntary sectors

5. To work in partnership with partners such as Health Visitors, Schools, Early Years providers, Housing, voluntary sector, etc to empower families to sustain positive behaviour changes

MAIN DUTIES 1. Effectively manage and progress a caseload to achieve positive outcomes based on a solution focussed, strengths based approach.

2. Assess and identify levels of risk, vulnerability and safeguarding via an Early Help Assessment, ensuring that the child’s and individuals or families voice is captured throughout the whole assessment and intervention process.

3. Deliver targeted activity working either on a 1-1 basis or in groups using an holistic approach to address any identified needs for the family in agreement with the family

4. Co-produce with the family protective, supportive and needs led plans and review in line with practice standards.

5. Maintain accurate records of all assessments, plans, actions and reviews Record all agreed exit strategies and ensure that the strategies are enacted in a timely manner

6. Participate in reviews, meetings and other forums as required in line with the one worker one family approach to engage, empower and enable positive steps towards change.

7. Support the Family Hub Manager in the day to day coordination of the Family Hub, ensuring agreed protocols for service delivery and the sharing of resources are implemented. The postholder will adopt a solution focused, problem solving approach to ensure any issues are addressed promptly and effectively.

8. Develop own knowledge of internal and external support services who work with families. Meet and greet families into the Family Hub and provide advice, support and signposting to the relevant support services to meet their needs. Make necessary referrals to relevant services as and when needed.

9. Work closely with Family Hub front of house staff ensure that the Family Hubs provide a welcoming environment for families. Utilising display boards to advertise the range of services available from Family Hubs and ensuring the Early Help Partnership online directory is up to date with all provision delivered via Family Hubs. Responsibility for Facebook pages and making this engaging, up to date and relevant to families.

10. Increase parental engagement to strengthen family relationships and support children’s education using a restorative, strengths-based approach

11. Undertake home visits independently to family homes to discuss and identify the needs of the family. Appropriate questioning, challenge and professional judgement to be used to determine what support is required, this may include support from Family Hubs, other services or statutory intervention. Appropriately identify any safeguarding concerns and report and respond appropriately. Ensure that engagement is captured via IT systems to evidence the journey of change through recording and maintaining accurate case notes, family interactions and assessments.

12. Work co-operatively with colleagues and partners to share information, ensuring a joined up approach, through relationship building and collaboration across the Partnership to build capacity and ensure Early Help becomes everyone’s responsibility.

13. Work as part of a multi-agency team around a Family Hub to improve outcomes for families

14. To deliver evidence based and other appropriate training courses either to individuals or groups as relevant and appropriate

15. Work in partnership with families to support parental understanding of their role in their child’s development supporting their learning and understanding of child development

16. Signpost parents to activities within the community to build resilience within the family. Support family members to develop skills to enable them to carry out household tasks such as budgeting, supporting health and hygiene, increasing parental confidence and capacity

17. Support family members to develop skills to enable them to carry out household tasks such as budgeting, supporting health and hygiene, increasing parental confidence and capacity.

18. Build close links with and offer awareness raising/support to schools, early years providers and education stakeholder groups to ensure that all providers are informed of key community assets and developments

19. Support the planning and delivery of creative and engaging consultation events and activities, to understand and gather information from a diverse range of people on local needs and issues.

20. Promoting Family Hub provision at various events including parent’s evenings, staff forums and other opportunities to raise awareness of Family Hub services.

21. Ensure that the families information data is lawfully gathered, accurate, up to date and only divulged in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the local government common law duty of confidentiality. Failure to apply these duties can lead to the individual or the Department facing legal court proceedings.

22. Ensure Quality Assurance Framework, legislation, regulations, policies and procedures are central to all good practice.

23. Engage within the development of the service and CPD through PDR, training team / service meetings, council events and supporting raising awareness sessions across the partnership on key and emerging issues

24. Utilise appropriate marketing techniques to promote awareness of the service and represent the service at events as required.

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