Job Description

Early Help Practitioner

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Date: 24 Sept 2025
Job Location:
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.



Job Title: Early Help Practitioner Job Location: Gloucestershire Salary: 33,143 - 36,363 Hours per Week: 29.6 Contract Type: Permanent Closing Date: 12/10/2025 Job Requisition Number: 12445 This post is open to job share





We are currently recruiting for a Early Help Practitioner to join our Early Help Hub on a part-time basis.

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:


between 33,143 - 36,363 per annum depending on experience (pro rata for part-time). flexible and agile working opportunities 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata for part-time) option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone an in-house Occupational Health service employee discount scheme cycle to work scheme (eligibility criteria and T&Cs apply) green car salary sacrifice scheme (eligibility criteria and T&Cs apply) links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network career development and qualification opportunities access to our Social Work Academy

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children's Services have been officially judged as '

Good' with 'Outstanding' elements

. Ofsted also said 'Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.'This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive. Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About us

Our Early Help Hub aims to support children and families of Gloucestershire to access services within Early Help. The Early Help Hub forms part of our Children's Front Door in Gloucestershire. We explore referrals that have been screened to require support from Early Help Services. We work with multi-agency partners to ensure families are supported to gain the right support, from the right service at the right time.

About you

As an Early Help Practitioner you will be experienced in working with children, young people, families and multi-agency partners within Early Help. You will have experience of undertaking multi-agency assessment and plans. You will understand the support that can be provided through Early Help and partner agencies to make informed recommendations on support we can provide to children and families within Gloucestershire.

You will need:

DBS clearance

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact Nikki Hunt on Nikki.Hunt@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Interview Date: 21st October 2025

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here:

Children's Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees.

We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior).

To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform

Ad

ditional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-



Early Help Hub Practitioner Role



This Position is subject to a DBS check.



Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.



We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.



It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.



Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.