Senior Family Practitioner

• Provide strong, consistent leadership during shifts, ensuring safe staffing, effective routines, and high practice standards
• Act as a visible role model for trauma-informed, reflective, and ethical practice
• Support and guide staff during challenging situations, including complex parental behaviours and emotional dysregulation
• Promote a culture of learning, reflection, and accountability within the staff team
• Provide day-to-day supervision, coaching, and mentoring to junior practitioners
• Support the development of staff competence in observation, recording, and safeguarding practice
• Contribute to the induction and training of new staff members
• Identify learning needs within the team and escalate development requirements appropriately
• Lead and support complex assessment sessions involving parenting capacity, emotional availability, and capacity to change
• Support staff to balance therapeutic engagement with appropriate professional challenge
• Ensure assessment practice remains child-focused, ethically sound, and evidence-based
• Contribute to the consistency and integrity of assessment evidence across the service
• Exercise advanced safeguarding judgement in line with the organisation policies and statutory guidance
• Act as a key decision-maker during safeguarding incidents or emerging risk situations
• Ensure safeguarding actions are implemented, recorded, and followed through appropriately
• Support staff to understand thresholds and respond proportionately to risk
• Review and quality-check records, observations, and assessment evidence produced by the team
• Contribute to audits, quality assurance activity, and service improvement planning
• Support senior leaders in identifying themes, patterns, and learning from practice
• Liaise with external professionals as required, under the guidance of senior management
• Support effective information sharing and professional communication
• Contribute to meetings and discussions that support assessment and safeguarding outcomes
• Adhere to all the organisation policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements
• Maintain high standards of professional conduct, boundaries, and confidentiality
• Uphold the organisation's values, ethos, and therapeutic model in all aspects of leadership and practice

• Substantial experience within residential, assessment-based, or child and family services
• Advanced safeguarding knowledge and professional judgement
• Demonstrated ability to supervise, coach, and support staff
• Strong decision-making skills and emotional resilience
• Ability to lead complex practice confidently and calmly
• High standards of written and verbal communication

• Formal supervisory or leadership training
• Experience contributing to formal assessment reports
• Advanced training in trauma-informed or therapeutic practice

Ongoing professional development, supervision, and leadership training are integral to this role