Family Practitioner

? Family Practitioner Location: Staffordshire
Contract: Temporary
Hours: Full Time (37 Hours per Week)
Pay: Competitive Hourly Rate (DOE)

Are you passionate about helping children and families overcome challenges and achieve lasting positive change? Service Care Solutions is recruiting an experienced Family Practitioner to join a dedicated Children's Services team in Staffordshire, working with children, young people and families through a restorative and strengths-based approach.

This is an incredibly rewarding opportunity to make a genuine difference by supporting families to stay together, reducing risks, and helping children achieve the best possible outcomes.

The Role As a Family Practitioner, you will work directly with children, young people, parents, carers and partner agencies to provide intensive support and intervention. You'll play a key role in preventing family breakdown, supporting children in need, and working alongside Social Workers to deliver effective plans that improve outcomes for vulnerable children.

Using a restorative practice approach, you'll build positive relationships with families while providing both support and appropriate challenge to encourage sustainable change.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with children and families to help children remain safely within their family or return home where appropriate.
• Complete Early Help Assessments and contribute to Child in Need, Child Protection and Children in Care plans.
• Deliver targeted interventions focusing on parenting, behaviour management, attachment, conflict resolution, safeguarding, exploitation, loss and grief.
• Undertake parenting assessments and contribute to wider family assessments.
• Organise and facilitate family meetings, professional meetings and group sessions.
• Provide practical support, crisis intervention and mediation to families.
• Build strong multi-agency relationships to ensure coordinated support.
• Maintain accurate case recordings, reports and documentation.
• Work flexibly, including occasional evenings and weekends, to meet the needs of children and families.

About You We're looking for someone who has:

• NVQ Level 3 in Children & Young People's Workforce, Health & Social Care or an equivalent qualification.
• Experience working directly with vulnerable children, young people and families within statutory or voluntary services.
• Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, child development and trauma-informed practice.
• Understanding of issues including domestic abuse, substance misuse, mental health, poverty and exploitation.
• Experience completing assessments and delivering targeted interventions.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strong written recording and IT skills.
• The ability to work confidently in challenging and emotionally demanding situations.
• A commitment to restorative practice and achieving positive outcomes for children.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (essential).

Why Apply?

• Make a lasting difference to children's lives.
• Join a supportive and experienced Children's Services team.
• Opportunity to develop your skills within a restorative practice model.
• Full-time, rewarding frontline role.
• Ongoing support from a dedicated Service Care Solutions consultant.

Apply Today If you're an experienced Family Practitioner, Family Support Worker, Early Help Practitioner, Children's Support Worker or have similar experience supporting vulnerable children and families, we'd love to hear from you.

? To apply or find out more, please contact:

John Deane
Service Care Solutions
Email: john.deane@servicecare.org.uk