Job Highlights
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 13th August 2025 @ 12 Noon
Location: Trafford
Contract Type: Full Time
Hours: 36.5 hours per week
Remuneration: Early Break Salary Points 7 - 11: £29,139 to £32,278 per annum.
Interview Date: Tuesday, 26th August 2025
Key Focus
To coordinate and deliver the Holding Families Programme.
To coordinate, motivate and support all workers involved in the delivery of the Holding Families.
To work with partner agencies to ensure effective referral pathways are in place.
To support the Senior Management Team at Early Break in developing a Service Training Strategy for the ongoing professional development of Family Workers.
To deliver training and support for workers in relation to the Holding Families way of working.
To represent the Service at relevant meetings locally and nationally.
Key Deliverables
To coordinate the roll-out of the Holding Families multi-agency working model with families in line with a structured timescale agreed with funders.
To promote and champion the Holding Families model and its benefits with partner agencies.
To ensure the Safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children within case work.
To oversee and coordinate student placements that will support the delivery of Holding Families in line with agreed protocols.
To undertake assessment, planning and review for a complex client case load of Holding Families clients – approx. 15 families.
Deliver the group work element of the Holding Families offer.
To provide education/information/training sessions, as appropriate.
To ensure that all necessary administration, recording and reporting is undertaken to specified deadlines.
To work with Senior Managers in developing and reviewing the Holding Families model to future-proof the offer.
To maintain a strong awareness of the issues and best practices related to parental substance misuse and its effects on families.
To support peer mentoring and volunteers linked to the Holding Families offer as and when required.