Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Part time - 3 or 4 days per week
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 150-MT2176-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Horsham / Worthing / Crawley / Chichester
- Town
- Horsham, Crawley, Worthing , Chichester
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Emotional Wellbeing Health Practitioner Family Safeguarding
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you an experienced, registered healthcare professional (Nurse, SCPHN, RMN, AHP) with significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable and complex families?
Do you thrive on building therapeutic relationships with clients and working in a strengths based team culture?
Do you have experience of working with adults with emotional health and complex safeguarding needs?
Do you have experience of working with hard to reach or disadvantaged communities?
Are you excited by the opportunity to learn and develop a new service alongside your colleagues?
We have 2 part time opportunities within the Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Team!
We are looking for exceptional healthcare professional's who can provide high-quality emotional wellbeing support, assessing and planning interventions for parents, and can work collaboratively with a range of professionals in helping families across West Sussex. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside West Sussex County Council’s Family Safeguarding Model. The Family Safeguarding Model is a strengths-based model bringing together under one roof all the professionals needed to help families stay together and children remain safely at home.
Work will be across West Sussex with main team hubs located in Crawley, Horsham, Worthing and Chichester. Practitioner base will be dependent on service need.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties:
Act as a Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing practitioner providing expert knowledge, skills and health interventions within the multidisciplinary (MDT) family safeguarding team.
Provide high-quality emotional support to parents with children subject to child protection proceedings. This includes assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating interventions.
Work directly with both with adults and families, and indirectly through developing and delivering training and knowledge sharing with other health and social care professionals within the MDT.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
a) The post holder, working within West Sussex County Council’s Family Safeguarding Model, will act as a Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Practitioner providing expert knowledge, skills and health interventions within the multidisciplinary (MDT) family safeguarding team. The post holder will work directly with parents, and indirectly through developing and delivering training and knowledge sharing with other health and social care professionals within the MDT.
b) Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health practitioners are employed by SCFT and managed by the Family Safeguarding Clinical Lead and work alongside a team of social workers and other social care professionals, working with parents where there is high risk of severe parenting problems including maltreatment and neglect.
c) As part of a multi-disciplinary approach, the post holder is responsible for providing high-quality emotional support to parents with children subject to child protection proceedings. This includes assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating interventions.
d) The post holder has the continuing responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload. There will be liaison with other agencies, supervision, deployment, and teaching of other staff and/or students.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing qualification and registered with the NMC or AHP qualification and registration.
- Degree level professional qualification.
- Master level qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Safeguarding qualification
- Qualifications in psychological Interventions
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering 1:1 emotional / wellbeing support / interventions to adults
- Additional training and/ or equivalent demonstrable experience in working with families with complex safeguarding needs.
- Significant experience of working with vulnerable families across a range of settings.
- Extensive experience of involvement of multi-agency safeguarding work with families where there is a range of complex issues.
- Demonstrable experience in providing leadership and management, and an ability to support and develop others.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate teaching experience skills and knowledge.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the Family Safeguarding Model
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
- Basic computer skills to create reports, use email, read excel spreadsheets etc
- Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
- Able to work effectively with diverse groups
- Able to analyse numerical data
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using Motivational interviewing techniques.
- Counselling skills
Other Requirement
Desirable criteria
- A car driver as post is West Sussex County wide, unless under the Equality Act for reasonable adjustments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daisy Waterfall
- Job title
- Clinical Lead (Family Safeguarding)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07483969179
- Additional information
Please email for further information
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