Rachel Pready

• Lead on Family Assessments and multi‑agency Family Help/CIN plans using a whole‑family, trauma‑informed approach.
• Coordinate and deliver targeted Early Help and CIN support, escalating concerns when required.
• Act as Lead Practitioner and maintain strong, purposeful relationships with children and families.
• Facilitate and review multi‑agency meetings, ensuring children’s voices shape plans.
• Produce timely, high‑quality assessments, reports, and case records to statutory standards.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies and contribute to wider safeguarding meetings.
• Safeguard children by following legislation, policy, and Working Together/National Framework requirements.
• Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and keep knowledge of guidance and policy up to date.

• I am responsible for a case load of families who are supported under s17 of the Children Act 1989 and are open to Warwickshire's Family and Adolescent Support Team (FAST).
• I complete statutory assessments to identify support needs for a family and act as the lead practitioner for the family, supporting them, co-ordinating and chairing child in need reviews and meetings. and create a plan of how to support the family.
• I have had a unique opportunity to be part of the Families First for children, Pathfinder programme which Warwickshire were chosen to take part in.
• I work closely with with the youth offending team to support teenagers and their families who are on the edge of, or who have entered the criminal justice system.
• I work with young people who are subject to exploitation and victims of crime, supporting them and their families.
• I work collaboratively with partner agencies to gather and share information to improve outcomes for young people.
• I support parents and carers to develop their understanding and find solutions to their families difficulties and needs.

• Supervise and support family support workers
• Contribute to the learning and development of others
• Developing and delivering training programs, including group supervision.
• Holding a small case load of complex cases.
• Work within a multi -disciplinary team to provide emotional and practical support to children, young people and their families
• Attend and contribute to multi disciplinary meetings, including Multi Agency child exploitation meetings (MACE), Missing Intervention Meeting (MIM), Disruption meetings, Strategy Meetings, Missing huddle meetings (considering trends, length of time missing, need for escalation, return to home interviews).
• Develop and implement child in need plans.
• Complete direct work with children and their families, delivering evidence based interventions, such as PACE.
• Supporting SGO carers to understand and manage emotions, behaviours; supporting and promoting good family relationships and reducing risk of family breakdown.
• Identify risk (contextual) and escalate as required.

• Responsible for implementing agreed programmes of work with children and their families to reduce the risk of children coming into the care of the local authority.
• Work alongside social workers progressing child in need and child protections plans.
• Complete direct work with children and families, recognising indicators of risk and escalating as necessary.
• Work collaboratively with multi agency teams to create safety plans and assess risk.
• Attend and contribute to multi disciplinary meetings.
• Supervise contact between children and their birth families.
• Create comprehensive reports.
• Provide advice and guidance to colleagues
• Contribute towards team development, including delivering training and imparting specialist knowledge.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with service users to promote positive outcomes.

• Acted as Lead Professional with case responsibility for around 25 children and young people.
• Completed assessments, updated plans, chaired and contributed to multi‑agency meetings (CIN, Early Help, EHCP reviews).
• Collaborated with partner agencies, gathering and sharing information appropriately in line with the Data Protection Act.
• Represented the Local Authority in public law proceedings, preparing reports and giving oral evidence.
• Participated in duty rota, responding to urgent matters and offering advice/guidance to professionals.
• Advocated for children and families, including those with limited verbal communication, and completed direct work such as Triple P parenting sessions.
• Set up support packages following assessment, writing reports for community resource panels and working jointly with professionals (police, health, education).
• Identified and escalated safeguarding concerns immediately in line with policy, contributing to service delivery and training.

Maintaining accurate records of the children and young peoples day and progress.

• Identifying and escalating and safeguarding concerns
• Developing and promoting and health and independence.
• Plan appropriate activates for the children and young people
• Supervise contact with Birth Families
• Attend Child in Care Reviews and any other necessary meetings.
• Accompany Children and young people to any necessary appointments, such as health or education.
• 1:1 Key worker whereby I supported those young people to develop, I provided emotional support and supported transition to adulthood.