Family Help Senior Practitioner - Ref: CH09125

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Job Description

Family Help Senior Practitioner - Ref: CH09125

Service: Young & Thriving Hub (0-5)
Directorate: Children's Services
Grade: Part time 0.5 FTE G9 (Salary pro rata to hours worked)
Location: Walsall (with flexibility across Family Help localities)

About the Young & Thriving Hub

The Young & Thriving Hub is a multi-disciplinary, co-located service providing integrated, early help and targeted support to expectant parents, babies, and children aged 0-5 and their families. The hub brings together professionals from across Children's Services and partner agencies to deliver trauma-informed, relationship-based practice that improves outcomes for children and supports families to thrive.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Family Help Senior Practitioner to play a key role within the Young & Thriving Hub. You will provide high-quality, evidence-based support to families with complex and varied needs, while offering professional leadership, supervision and guidance to Family Help staff.

Working within a multi-disciplinary environment, you will help ensure that children's welfare remains central to all practice, supporting early intervention, safeguarding, and positive, sustainable change for families.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise, support and mentor Family Help staff to ensure high-quality, child-centred practice and positive outcomes for children and families.
• Deliver and oversee evidence-based interventions for families with complex needs, providing direct support where required.
• Support and quality-assure comprehensive assessments of family strengths, needs and risks, ensuring plans are co-produced with families and reviewed regularly.
• Act as a lead practitioner supporting families with complex needs, offering expert guidance.
• Promote effective multi-agency working, building strong relationships with health, education, police and voluntary sector partners within the Young & Thriving Hub.
• Contribute to staff development, induction and training, embedding reflective practice and continuous learning across the service.

What We're Looking For

• A relevant professional qualification and/or substantial experience working with children, young people and families.
• Strong experience of supervision, mentoring and practice leadership within Family Help
• Sound knowledge of safeguarding, child development and early intervention approaches, particularly for children aged 0-5.
• Confidence working within multi-disciplinary teams and building effective partnerships across agencies.
• A commitment to trauma-informed, strengths-based and relationship-focused practice aligned with the Young & Thriving ethos.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of an innovative, integrated Young & Thriving Hub focused on prevention and improving life chances for children.
• Work within a supportive, reflective and values-driven service that prioritises professional development.
• Make a meaningful difference to the lives of children and families at a critical stage of development.

Additional Information

• Enhanced DBS clearance required.
• The council operates flexible, customer-focused ways of working, and the post may require working across different localities, some evening and weekend work.

Please be aware that previous applicants do not need to reapply.

Closing date: 13th February 2026

View: Job Description and Employee Specification

This post is covered by the Government's Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people and vulnerable adults.

Note: Applicants appointed to posts that require an enhanced DBS clearance must declare any periods of time that they have lived, studied or worked abroad and be prepared to provide an Overseas Criminal Records Certificate (OCRC) or a Statement of Good Conduct (SOGC) relating to anytime they were overseas

Information for Applicants

Important note: When completing your online application form, you will be asked to enter supporting information. You must enter a detailed supporting information statement describing how your skills, abilities and experience meet the specific criteria included in the employee specification. If you do not include a supporting information statement, you will not be shortlisted. Please also ensure that you complete the work history and qualifications sections of your application form. Please do not add a CV as we do not accept them.See our Information for Applicants leaflet for further information.

We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not contact us regarding this job vacancy. We are not accepting Agency applications or referrals at this time

At Walsall Council, we appreciate that AI can be a useful tool for ideas or guidance. However, we encourage you to make sure your application reflects your own voice and experiences. Over-reliance on AI can make responses feel less personal, and we really want to understand what makes you unique. Your experiences, skills, and perspective are what set you apart, so please ensure your application as a whole - particularly your 'Supporting Information' - reflects your own voice.

About Us

Here at Walsall, we want to attract the best talent. That's why - as well as a satisfying and rewarding job - we offer a range of attractive benefits. Working arrangements in most jobs are flexible (you may work flexitime, full or part time and job sharing is usually available) and you can expect generous holiday entitlements, a first class pension scheme and plenty of opportunities for training and personal development.

We advertise vacancies because we want the best talent available. If that's you, we're waiting for your application.

Living in Walsall

Part of the Black Country, famous for its enterprising and industrial past, Walsall is reinventing itself to become a progressive modern community. The borough is centred around the major town of Walsall, but also includes five smaller and distinctive district centres (Bloxwich, Aldridge, Willenhall, Darlaston and Brownhills), together with numerous villages.

Walsall Council is committed to Safer Recruitment.

To achieve our commitment, we will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce.

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