Team Administrator – Family Wellbeing Service

Provide administrative and coordination support to the Family Wellbeing Service that support families across Surrey with wellbeing and mental health literacy as well as specific EBSNA and ND support. Work proactively, use their own initiative and work unsupported to achieve tasks. The administrator will provide administrative support to a service that is currently in development, with plans to grow over 4 years, with 8 practitioners as well as liaise with partner agencies and stakeholders to ensure the smooth running of this service

Responsibilities

  • Using a variety of software packages, such as Microsoft Office suite, mail chimp, poll daddy and Survey Monkey
  • Answering telephone and email queries from partner organisations, external agencies and parents/carers
  • Contacting families via the telephone and email, that are referred to Eikon Family Wellbeing Service
  • Production and creation of letters, correspondence, leaflets, newsletters and supporting the production of website content
  • General administration work including filing, archiving, retrieving information and documents
  • Provide, record and report the appropriate data to ensure support programmes can be accurately monitored and evaluated   
  • Set up and maintain excel spreadsheet that tracks and monitors status of all cases referred to the service
  • Support the Service Delivery Manager in the maintenance and monitoring of the service tracker
  • Create and maintain processes for receiving service feedback and monitoring and reporting service impact data
  • Be responsible for entering Direct Referrals and Mindworks referrals on to organisation database along with any corresponding case allocation administration
  • On-boarding of new referrals ensuring are contacted within the agreed contract guidelines.  Once initial calls are completed, to ensure these are moved to the correct service pathway
  • Monitor the return of consent and registration forms
  • Carry out administrative tasks associated with follow-up on all missed sessions, cancellations, queries and case closures
  • Create, maintain and monitor a booking system for individual, group and online sessions and all corresponding tasks e.g. room booking, calendar updates and sending meeting links/information to recipients
  • Create and support the monitoring of wait lists for the various services and subsequent case allocation to practitioners
  • Carry out ‘check in’ communications with families on our waiting list and escalate any new concerns to appropriate staff
  • Record all communications with families and professionals related to specific cases on Evide
  • Create, maintain and monitor attendance lists for any groups
  • Ensure all data and information is uploaded onto all relevant databases
  • To organise the administration of all group work delivered by the Family Wellbeing team, in both schools and community settings
  • To support Service Delivery Manager with the review of wait list and active cases with practitioners to ensure all sessions and meetings have been planned in and appropriate actions taken and recorded
  • To support the Service Delivery Manager in identifying where administrative improvements and efficiencies can be made
  • Support the Family Wellbeing team with administration relating to their work with CYPF record keeping
  • Monitoring general phone calls and email enquiries, ensuring these get forward to the correct recipient

Organisational requirements

  • Understand and act when safeguarding issues need to be escalated
  • Work within Eikon’s internal policies, safeguarding and data protection regulations
  • Work as part of a team and attend team meetings, training events and participate fully in 1:1
  • Work co-operatively and under the management of The Eikon Charity staff to ensure the highest quality of delivery and support
  • Be responsible for equipment/resources
  • To promote, monitor and maintain health safety and security in the working environment
  • Other work as requested by your line manager as needed to support our aims

Family Wellbeing Practitioner with Neurodevelopmental Specialism

The postholder will provide advice, guidance and coaching to parents and carers of children aged 8-18 years to help them to develop new awareness and skills to enhance their support to their children through a combination of group-work and one-to-one sessions.

As part of the Surrey Wellbeing Partnership, The Eikon Charity provides a wide range of emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children & young people. Through this work we have seen how challenging parents and carers can find supporting their children’s emotional wellbeing difficulties, particularly where they have Neurodivergent needs.

Supported by new funding streams, we are delighted to be recruiting to this new role of Family Wellbeing Practitioner with Neurodevelopmental Specialism, to be a key practitioner within our Family Wellbeing Service. As a practitioner, you will hold a caseload, working as part of a team to undertake assessments and deliver a range of evidence-based interventions, including EBSNA support, with a focus on support for families with children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions.

Responsibilities

  • To assess the needs and strengths of the parents/carers referred into the service and help them identify and implement strategies that will support them, help them identify individual goals to achieve desired change
  • Deliver bespoke programmes of support, to parents/carers of children and young people diagnosed with or being assessed for neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autistic Spectrum Condition and/or ADHD. This could take the form of time limited 1:1 or group sessions or a blended approach depending on the needs presenting themselves
  • To support the creation and development of and deliver workshops and presentations for small parent/carer groups covering a range of emotional wellbeing and mental health topics relevant to children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions
  • Record and review parent/carer goals using the Goal-Based Outcomes tool and use this to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions
  • To involve parents/carers in the co-design of group work and ensure that the service responds to user voice and meets the needs identified
  • To take responsibility for own caseload of parents/carers, some with complex and multiple needs  
  • To keep accurate records of individual engagement, evidence of change and celebrate progress with parents/carers to ensure support programmes can be accurately monitored and evaluated   
  • To provide written case studies as evidence of the effectiveness of individual interventions 
  • To identify a range of specialist services and agencies who can offer further support for parents and families
  • To work collaboratively with other Eikon delivery teams in delivering interventions for children, young people and families
  • To promote the service within The Eikon Charity and with statutory and voluntary sector partners across the region – this might include presentations at networking events and production of promotional material
  • To assist with the development and progression of the Family Wellbeing Service by adhering to all communication requests and assisting with peer progression development when requested through case supervision

Organisational requirements

  • Understand and act when safeguarding issues need to be escalated
  • Work within Eikon’s internal policies, safeguarding and data protection regulations
  • Work as part of a team and attend team meetings, training events and participate fully in 1:1
  • Work co-operatively and under the management of The Eikon Charity staff to ensure the highest quality of delivery and support
  • Be responsible for equipment/resources
  • To promote, monitor and maintain health safety and security in the working environment
  • Attend and actively participate in regular clinical supervision
  • Work some planned evenings or weekends
  • Other work as requested by your line manager as needed to support our aims

Early Intervention Coordinator

The Early Intervention Coordinator is a key role within the School Based Needs Service, working as part of the borough and district-based community teams, comprised of NHS staff and third sector workforce under the umbrella of The Surrey Wellbeing Partnership. This team will build support around schools offering a wide menu of services across a cluster of schools based on borough/district boundaries.

The role of the EIC is to deliver and support children and young people through one- to- one direct work, small group sessions and signposting to specialist services. These interventions will be delivered across a network of secondary schools in the Runnymede, Surrey Heath and Waverley areas.

Responsibilities

Design, deliver and review evidence-based interventions for children and young people which aim to improve mental health and well-being and build on existing strengths

  • Assess the needs and strengths of the referred young person and help them identify individual goals to achieve desired change (Goal Based Outcome Assessments).
  • Manage own caseload of children and young people facing a wide range of issues, in both one to one and group settings, to address emerging needs and help build resilience, develop coping strategies and improve their mental health & wellbeing.
  • Provide advice, guidance and signposting to young people and their families, that will connect them to resources that will support young people’s wellbeing.
  • ​To operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity and ensures all work is sensitive to a range of ethnic, cultural and religious groups, is gender sensitive and anti-discriminatory.

Develop and maintain relationships with key school staff in secondary schools and Schools Based Needs Team

  • Work in close partnership and collaboratively with pastoral staff in school, Surrey Wellbeing Partners, Surrey and Borders NHS Partnership, Surrey Children’s Services, local Mental Health Support Teams and other community-based services to provide the most effective service for children, young people and families.
  • Ensure that children and young people with more intensive support needs are put in touch with relevant Intensive Intervention services (whilst continuing to provide support until the intensive support is in place)​.

Impact, Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting

  • Accurately record individual engagement, evidence of change using appropriate outcomes data to ensure support programmes can be accurately monitored and evaluated.
  • To collect and share case studies that demonstrate good practice and the impact of interventions on outcomes for children and young people.
  • Work with colleagues and line manager to ensure that your work is aligned to organisational strategy, key objectives and annual plans and budgets.

Personal Development/Other Duties

  • Keep up to date with good practice, legislation and policies that have an impact on service delivery at Eikon
  • Work within Eikon’s internal policies, safeguarding, health and safety, and data protection regulations
  • Work as part of a team to lead and inspire collaboration across Eikon
  • Attend training as discussed and agreed between yourself and line manager
  • Attend team meetings and engage in 1:1 or group supervision
  • Work co-operatively and under the management of The Eikon Charity staff to ensure the highest quality of delivery and support
  • Be responsible for equipment/resources linked to service delivery
  • Work across multiple geographical locations