Early Help Training Offer
Early Help Module (EHM) is an innovative, dynamic Early Help Tool designed to support practitioners from across the partnership record early help intervention offered to families in Sandwell. EHM is designed to support practitioners to view families electronic records, manage or co-ordinate workload, record meeting, visits, plan outcomes, monitor and update case notes.
EHM delivers a solution to facilitate communication between practitioners from different services and agencies which will enable them to share Early Help Assessment information and record intervention completed appropriately and securely for the benefit of children, young people and families.
A Specialist Helpdesk in order to support users as and when needed is also available to all partners working with Sandwell’s children and families.
To find available training dates and book a space please visit https://training.sandwelllscb.org.uk/
To request bespoke EHM training for your organisation please email ecaf_queries@sandwell.gov.uk
We offer the following Early Help training sessions:
- Early Help Module basic
- Early Help Modul advanced
- Lead Professional training
An eLearning module ‘an introduction to Early Help in Sandwell’ is also available.
Early Help Module (EHM)
This is a currently a virtual classroom based course and is split in to Basic and Advanced.
Basic training will cover the following:
- How to navigate around the Early Help System
- The difference between an open and closed episode
- See who the lead professional is, or the lead professional for previously open episodes
- How to search for and create a child/young person
- How to add family
- How to add involvements (key agencies working with the family)
- How to open and the steps to follow in order to complete and Early Help Assessment
- How to create a case note
- How to record a family visit
- How to attach and restrict documents
Advanced training will cover the following:
- A refresher of the basic training
- How to organise & create Team Around the Family meetings
- How to record Team Around the Family plans
- How and when to open Short Term work and what can be recorded there
- How to record Outcome Star and Family Star
- How to open and record a GCP2 assessment
- Closure process
Lead Professional
This training will cover the following:
- Sandwell’s Windscreen of help and support and where Early Help features
- The Lead Professionals within Early Help in Sandwell
- The function of Lead Professional
- How to select a Lead Professional
- Skills and Roles of a Lead Professional
- The accountabilities of a Lead Professional
- Recording a TAF including use of tools available
- Support available to support the Lead professional role