Job Description

Salary

NJC19 - 32,061FTE

Contractual hours

30

Basis

Part time

Hours

Part Time, Permanent

Job category/type

Children's Services

Date posted

26/09/2025

Job reference

NELC400000312

Can you build lasting relationships across care sectors and communities?

Do you have the key knowledge of local services to direct and signpost to best available support?

Be the difference, make the change.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Early Help Coordinator to join our Team on a part time basis (30 hours per week with tuesdays as a non-working

day.

Our

Purpose

Our service seeks to support our wider partners and universal services, in supporting the children and families of North East Lincolnshire, without the need for statutory, or social care support.

The Role

This is a new and exciting role in our service. As an EH Coordinator you will work closely with the agencies that form the team around the child, including schools, nurseries, mental health services and the voluntary sector. You will be travelling across the community working alongside multiple services and agencies to ensure the best outcomes for children and families across North East Lincolnshire.

As part of this role, you will build strong, robust, and open relationships with partner agencies, in order to them to support children and families, without the need for a Local Authority response.

The post holder will support agencies in the completion of Early Help assessments, the creation and delivery of team around the family plans and holding team around the family meetings in ensuring the children/family's needs are met at the lowest proportionate level. The post holder will also signpost to other support services and offer support and advice to professionals around alternative services, which are best placed to support the child and family.

The role also requires you to develop and deliver training and champion early help across the partnership.

Who we are looking for

The ideal postholder will have a high level of interpersonal skills to be able to work as part of a team and develop professional and effective partnership working with all agencies, which will demand highly developed facilitation and influencing skills.

Assessment and exploration skills are crucial to identify levels of need and barriers for children, young people and families in order to determine the right level of support by the right person at the right time.

The post holder will have the knowledge and experience of understanding what support is available across NEL and confident to signpost partners to these agencies.

The role will require travel to various sites such as schools, family hubs and community support services. You must have the ability to travel frequenty across North East Lincolnshire to attend meetings and engagements.

The ideal candidate will be confident to develop, facilitate and deliver training and to champion Early Help across the borough.

Your Application

All applicants are advised to carefully read the information provided in the Role Profile and Person Specification. If you require an informal discussion about the role, please contact Rachel Cross - Service Lead - Family Help: rachel.cross@nelincs.gov.uk

In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:

At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)

You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses)

References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position

Key Dates

We aim to interview 23/10/2025.

We want you to have the best interview experience with us, so will provide candidates selected for interview their questions 24 hours in advance of meeting us.

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.

As part of your RewardNEL package

, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.

You will also have access to our

exclusive

RewardNEL

platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.

NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.

Do you need support?

If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.

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inclusivity

in the workplace, helping us identify areas where we can take positive action, and make the organisation a safe space for colleagues to feel connected.