Senior Strengthening Families Practitioner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £41,435 i £45,775 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Kettering/W'Boro, NN16 8RX |
| Cwmni: | Northamptonshire Children's Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | Ref/44/6931 |
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Strengthening Families is a vital part of our Children and Family Support Services, providing intensive, multi-agency support to children, young people, and families facing complex challenges. We focus on strengthening parenting capacity and empowering families to achieve long-term, positive outcomes.
Using an Early Help approach, we offer a wide range of interventions—from direct work with families to group programs addressing parenting and domestic abuse. Working in partnership with other agencies, we build a strong team around each family to support lasting, meaningful change.
Our benefitsWe are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.
We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:
- 28 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health pension protection.
- Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days annual leave
- Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
- Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
- Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- Subsidised town centre car parking scheme
We are now seeking a skilled and committed Senior Practitioner to join the Strengthening Families Team in North Northamptonshire.
In this key leadership role, you will:
- Lead and supervise a team of practitioners who deliver high-level, complex interventions to children and families.
- Provide professional guidance and oversight, ensuring that practice is safe, effective, and aligned with agreed standards and timescales.
- Use your extensive knowledge of complex family issues to help your team respond with tailored, evidence-informed support.
- Promote a culture of high-quality, outcome-focused practice that listens to the voices and lived experiences of children.
- Work closely with partners across education, social care, and health to deliver holistic, sustainable change for families.
- Drive continuous improvement through a strong focus on quality assurance and best practice.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
About youWe're looking for someone who is:
- Highly organised with substantial experience in leading and motivating high-performing teams in Early Help, Targeted Support, Social Work, Education, or a relevant health discipline.
- Experienced in whole-family, preventative work and confident in assessing risk, safeguarding, and planning interventions.
- Skilled in supervising or coaching staff to deliver impactful, trauma-informed support to vulnerable families.
- A strong collaborator who thrives on building partnerships and delivering results through integrated, child-centred services.
- Passionate about making a difference and committed to supporting families to achieve lasting, positive change.
Interested?
For an informal discussion, please contact Kay Cragg on 07917000271
(Please do not send CVs to this email address. Only applications submitted via the Recruitment Hub Portal will be considered.)
When applying please ensure your supporting statement covers how you fulfil the essential criteria set out in the person specification as this will be used for shortlisting. You will need to provide a full employment history including any gaps since leaving full time education
About usAt Northamptonshire Children’s Trust, children, young people and families are at the heart of all we do – in every decision we make and every action we take. Our mission is driven by the unwavering commitment to achieving the best outcomes for them. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils.
Our workforce are our most valuable asset and are pivotal to making the services and support we offer to children, young people and families who need us to be the absolute best we can be.
We value our colleagues and empower them to be able to do the best job of their lives every single day, working in a culture of support and kindness where achievements are celebrated and creativity is very much welcomed.
At NCT equality, diversity and inclusion are part of us and in everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and thrive in our organisation. We are a disability confident employer and have a commitment to care leavers who we guarantee an interview if they meet the essential criteria.
Join our dedicated team and be a part of an organisation where your work makes a real difference.