Job Description
The Service & Team:
Are you passionate about improving outcomes for young children and families? Would you like to be part of a forward thinking and innovative service focussing on supporting children under 5 and their families, with a focus on the first 1001 critical days? Do you have a level 3 NVQ qualification related to health and child development or equivalent and experience in working with families?
If you can answer yes! Then we want to hear from you by applying for the latest Foundations for Life practitioner role.
Giving children the best start in life is a fundamental part of improving health, development and reducing inequalities. Supporting parents to improve children’s speech, language and communication skills as well as their personal, social and emotional development will help children to develop well and to have secure relationships with their care givers.
The Role
This is an integral prevention and early intervention role based in the Best Start, Community Health Service within Together for Families. The role is to support the Parent Infant Relationship, by working alongside the Health Visiting Service delivering evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for young children. To work collaboratively to prevent emerging needs from developing further, through the use early interventions for young children aged pre-birth to 5 years and their families.
We have a 4 day part time post within Cornwall covering the Mid / East Area
You will be working in a supportive team and working with families in their homes, early years settings, nurseries, and Family Hubs. You will deliver practical early support to improve outcomes for young children, for example supporting parents in play, child development and baby massage.
You will be working under the support of other professionals such as Health Visitors, Early Years workers, Educational Psychologists in the Children’s Health and Wellbeing Directorate, across Together for Families.
You will be trained to deliver evidence-based interventions that are proven to help children and families reach their full potential.
Successful outcomes will be that children and families are helped to develop well, have healthy parent infant relationships and children are ready to learn and play with their peers at 2, with an improved uptake of 2-year-old early years funded nursery places.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
You will need NNEB/HND/BTEC or GNVQ (to level 3) related to health and child development.
Experience of working in the community and with vulnerable families
Experience of running groups and health promotion activities.
If you need more information then please contact Team Manager
[email protected] or
[email protected]Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
a competitive salary.
a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information
The full role profile is attached here
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact
[email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle. 
