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This Family Practitioner role sits within the Devon team and delivers a well-established and valued service delivery to our partner schools across North and Mid Devon. You will work closely with school-based colleagues to identify suitable parent-child dyads to engage in Personalised Individual Parenting Training (PIPT) and also offering parent workshops and coffee mornings as appropriate to identified school needs.
The role of the Family Practitioner is to deliver a range of targeted individual and group interventions with parents, carers, children and young people within a school setting to improve outcomes for children and their families. This role, in line with Place2Be ethos, places an emphasis on early intervention.
You will work in partnership with parents to strengthen parental capacity and family relationships, especially with relation to managing challenging behaviour, and to increase parental engagement in their local school community and in their children's education and development. The role will include a combination of face-to-face work in schools in the allocated area and remote working from home or office. You will need to be able to travel regularly to all schools in the area.
You will hold a recognised level 4 clinical qualification in family interventions/counselling/Childhood Development/Social Work and a recognised membership of a relevant professional body (BACP/UKCP/NCS/BPS - BASW (British Association for Social Workers)/AFT (Association for Family Practice and Systemic Practice). Further details are available in the Job Description and Person Specification.
Our Benefits
When you work at Place2Be - whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance or Fundraising - every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role, and our commitment to you is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support.
Here’s just a few things we have on offer:
• Annual Leave that increases with service;
• Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career;
• 5% contributory pension scheme;
• Life assurance of four times your annual salary;
• A comprehensive employee assistance programme;
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network);
• Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time;
• Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave.
Safeguarding the young people we support is our top priority. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and we therefore apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure all candidates are appropriate for the roles they apply for and are appropriately screened prior to appointment, including DBS checks and social media background checks.
We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation.
Should you require any adjustments to help you complete an application, then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or jobs@place2be.org.uk.
Please note, if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible.
