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Family Practitioner (suitable for careers such as ex social worker, early help workers, experienced family support practitioners, youth workers with families etc)

School & Location – Bottesford

Reporting to Mat Burbidge- SENDCO

Working Arrangements – Full Time

Salary £40,000

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Family Practitioner to join our growing team and play a pivotal role in supporting children, young people, and their families to achieve positive outcomes.

This is a rewarding and varied role working with families facing a wide range of complex challenges, including those involved in Child Protection and Child in Need processes, as well as adoptive families, fostering households, children's homes, kinship carers, blended families, and parents navigating significant behavioural, emotional, and relational difficulties as well as children with complex trauma.

You will provide both 1:1 therapeutic and practical support to parents and carers, alongside delivering engaging and impactful parenting workshops, group programmes, and family interventions. You will be working with our MDT including a range of therapists, Inclusion Lead, and SENDCo.

The successful candidate will bring extensive experience of working with vulnerable and complex families and be confident in building trust, providing challenge where appropriate, and delivering evidence-based strategies that empower families to thrive.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver one-to-one support, coaching, and therapeutic interventions for parents and carers.

Design and facilitate parenting workshops and family programmes.

Support families experiencing complex social, emotional, behavioural, and relational challenges.

Work with Child Protection, Child in Need, looked after, adopted, foster, and kinship families.

Provide guidance and practical strategies around parenting, attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, behaviour management, emotional regulation, and family relationships.

Conduct family assessments and develop tailored support plans.

Liaise with schools, social care teams, local authorities, therapists, and other professionals to ensure coordinated support.

Maintain accurate records and contribute to reports where required.

Promote resilience, stability, and positive outcomes for children and young people.

About You

We welcome applications from experienced professionals such as:

Family Practitioners

Social Workers

Counsellors

Psychotherapists

Family Support Workers

Therapeutic Practitioners

Parenting Practitioners

Children's Services Professionals

Foster Care Support Professionals

Youth and Family Intervention Specialists

You will have:

Significant experience working directly with complex and vulnerable families.

A strong understanding of Child Protection and Child in Need frameworks and can support families. This is not a DSL role but the role focussed on the family support through these frameworks.

Experience supporting adoptive, foster, kinship, and blended families.

Knowledge of attachment, developmental trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and therapeutic parenting approaches.

Experience delivering parenting programmes, workshops, or training sessions.

Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

The ability to work independently while contributing as part of a wider multidisciplinary team.

A relevant professional qualification in social work, counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, family support, education, youth work, or a related discipline.

Desirable

Therapeutic or counselling accreditation.

Experience supporting families affected by neurodiversity, trauma, or adverse childhood experiences.

Training in therapeutic parenting, attachment-based approaches, solution-focused practice, or restorative approaches.

Experience working with residential children's homes and fostering services

The role will involve working closely with young people and colleagues to provide a positive, supportive and consistent environment in which young people can learn and develop. We are looking for someone who shares our commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people.

What We Offer

We know that great schools are built by great people. That’s why we want working at Edison Young People to be about more than just a job. Here are just some of the benefits we offer:

A competitive salary, recognising the skills, experience and commitment our staff bring to their roles.

Generous annual leave, either working term time only, giving you the opportunity to enjoy school holidays with your family and friends, or for non teaching staff, receive 5.6 weeks' annual leave plus bank holidays.

Additional dedicated and paid wellbeing/duvet days to give you time to focus on yourself and recharge.

Free breakfast, lunch and drinks throughout the day.

Free carparking.

Further wellbeing initiatives including a fully funded cashback health scheme, helping you claim back costs towards services such as optical, dental, physiotherapy and other eligible health costs.

Staff socials paid for including Summer Festival, Christmas party and other team social events.

Opportunities to get involved in educational trips, including travel with young people on trips across Europe.

Invest in your future with our supportive workplace pension scheme.

Opportunities to develop and progress, with access to a wide range of training.

Perhaps the biggest benefit of working at Edison Young People is knowing that what you do matters. Every day, our staff have the opportunity to help a young person build confidence, overcome challenges, discover their strengths and take another step towards a positive future.

About Edison Young People

Edison Young People provides specialist education and support for children and young people who may have experienced difficulties accessing and achieving within mainstream education.

We believe that a young person should not be defined by their past experiences or the challenges they have faced. Our aim is to provide the relationships, environment, education and support they need to overcome adversity, develop confidence and resilience, and achieve positive outcomes for their present and future lives.

Across our schools, we place strong emphasis on individualised teaching, positive relationships and high quality support. We work to create environments where young people feel safe, valued, understood and able to engage in learning.

About Us

The Place Independent School operates across two sites in Bottesford and Barkestone, Nottinghamshire, providing specialist education for young people from Year 2 through to Year 13.

The school provides a nurturing environment with small class sizes, individualised support and opportunities for outdoor learning. The school also incorporates therapeutic and experiential opportunities, including interaction with a range of school farm animals.

The Place is committed to helping young people feel safe, develop confidence and independence, and achieve their individual potential.

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

All employees have a responsibility to contribute to a safe environment and to follow safeguarding policies, procedures and reporting arrangements, which are regularly reviewed.

The successful candidate will be expected to maintain appropriate professional boundaries, identify and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns, and contribute to the creation of a safe and positive environment for all young people.

Employment will be subject to appropriate pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS, satisfactory references and the right to work in the UK.

Edison Pace School is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

Applicants must therefore already have the appropriate right to work in the UK.

The requirement to hold a full, valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle is essential to the role. Unfortunately, we will be unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet this requirement.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion across our organisation.

We want our schools to be places where everyone feels valued, respected and able to contribute.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and perspectives and are committed to providing equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment and employment processes.

For tours of the school or further information, please contact Mat on: m.burbidge@theplaceindependentschool.co.uk

Pay: £40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Discounted or free food
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site gym
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person