Community Early Years Practitioner

Job overview

Would you like to make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Community Early Years Practitioner in our Bristol East and Central Team.

Join our dedicated 0–19 Public Health Nursing team as a Community Early Years Practitioner and make a lasting difference to children and families across BNSSG. Working alongside Health Visitors, you'll deliver evidence-based early intervention, empower parents, promote healthy child development, and provide support in homes and community settings.

If you're passionate about giving every child the best start in life, enjoy working independently as part of a supportive team, and thrive on building strong relationships with families and partner organisations, we'd love to hear from you.

This role is offered as a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of a skill mix team, supporting delivery of integrated, evidence-based services for children & their families. Focusing on prevention, promotion, early intervention, improving health and reducing health inequalities.

Using a holistic and sensitive approach to support parents with their children's social, emotional and developmental needs, working in family homes, children's centres, and other community settings in Bristol East &Central.

Working in partnership with families to deliver evidence-based interventions promoting attuned and sensitive parenting and support the social, emotional and developmental needs of children.

You will work largely autonomously (lone working is a feature of the role) with supervision. There will be times when you access additional support or provide additional support with colleagues.

You will be responsible for planning, delivering and recording your allocated work and liaising with Health Visitors and other colleagues.

This role requires a flexible, warm & reflective practitioner committed to ongoing development of skills and knowledge in order to maintain the excellent standards of the service.

You will work with communities and services within your locality, including early years settings & children's centres to build social capital and community networks.

You will embed Sirona's vision of supporting communities socially and economically to tackle the impact of child poverty, reduce inequalities and add social value.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

Please note, we cannot offer a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

If you currently require a visa to work in the UK, there must be a minimum of 14 months remaining until the expiry date. If you do not disclose your expiry date within your application, it may not be considered.

If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.

This role requires the successful applicant to be mobile, visiting several locations across a wide geographical area so the post holder must hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to an appropriate means of transport to undertake the job effectively

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.