About this role
Job summary
Are you a passionate and experienced registered healthcare professional (Nurse, SCPHN, RMN or AHP) looking to make a meaningful difference to vulnerable children and families in the community?
Do you excel at building trusted therapeutic relationships and enjoy working within a supportive, strengths-based team culture?
Do you have experience supporting adults with emotional wellbeing needs, complex safeguarding concerns, and families facing multiple challenges?
Are you skilled in engaging hard-to-reach or disadvantaged communities with compassion, empathy and professionalism?
Would you like the opportunity to help shape and develop an innovative service alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team?
Join the Specialist Emotional Wellbeing Health Team We are excited to offer one full-time opportunity for an exceptional healthcare professional to join our growing Specialist Emotional Wellbeing Health Team across West Sussex.
In this rewarding role, you will provide high-quality emotional wellbeing support to parents; undertaking assessments, developing tailored intervention plans, and working collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies and professionals.
This role involves working across West Sussex, with key team hubs based in:
Crawley Horsham Littlehampton Chichester Your base location will be determined in line with service needs.
Main duties of the job Main Duties
Act as a Specialist Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner within the multidisciplinary Family Safeguarding Team, providing expert knowledge, clinical skills and evidence-based health interventions to support vulnerable families. Deliver high-quality emotional wellbeing support to parents whose children are subject to child protection proceedings, including undertaking comprehensive assessments, planning and implementing tailored interventions, and evaluating outcomes to promote positive change. Work directly with adults to build resilience, improve emotional wellbeing and support safer family environments through a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach. Contribute to the development of the wider multidisciplinary team by delivering training, consultation, knowledge sharing and professional guidance to health and social care colleagues across the Family Safeguarding Model. Develop effective collaborative relationships with partner agencies and professionals to ensure coordinated, holistic support for families across West Sussex.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description Job responsibilities
Working within West Sussex County Councils innovative Family Safeguarding Model, the successful candidate will join the multidisciplinary Family Safeguarding Team as a Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Practitioner. In this role, you will provide expert knowledge, specialist skills and evidence-based health interventions to support parents and families facing complex challenges.
You will work directly with parents to provide high-quality emotional wellbeing support, while also contributing to the wider multidisciplinary team through training, consultation and knowledge sharing with health and social care professionals.
Employed by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) and managed by the Family Safeguarding Clinical Lead, you will work closely alongside social workers and partner agencies to support families where there are significant concerns relating to parenting capacity, safeguarding, neglect and child welfare.
As part of this collaborative, strengths-based approach, you will:
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate tailored emotional wellbeing interventions for parents involved in child protection proceedings
Manage a defined community caseload, ensuring high standards of care, safeguarding and professional practice
Build effective working relationships with partner agencies to support coordinated care and positive outcomes for families
Provide supervision, guidance and support to colleagues, students and wider team members where appropriate
Contribute to the ongoing development of the Family Safeguarding Model through collaborative practice, reflective learning and service improvement
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary service committed to improving outcomes for children, adults and families across West Sussex.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Nursing qualification and registered with the NMC or AHP qualification and registration. Degree level professional qualification. Master level qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable
Safeguarding qualification Qualifications in psychological Interventions
Experience Essential
Experience of delivering 1:1 emotional / wellbeing support / interventions to adults Additional training and/ or equivalent demonstrable experience in working with families with complex safeguarding needs. Significant experience of working with vulnerable families across a range of settings. Extensive experience of involvement of multi-agency safeguarding work with families where there is a range of complex issues. Demonstrable experience in providing leadership and management, and an ability to support and develop others.
Desirable
Demonstrate teaching experience skills and knowledge.
Skills and Knowledge Essential
Knowledge of the Family Safeguarding Model Good communication and negotiation skills Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary Basic computer skills to create reports, use email, read excel spreadsheets etc Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively Able to work effectively with diverse groups Able to analyse numerical data
Desirable
Experience of using Motivational interviewing techniques. Counselling skills
Other Requirement Desirable
A car driver as post is West Sussex County wide, unless under the Equality Act for reasonable adjustments
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Address Horsham / Worthing / Crawley / Chichester
Horsham, Crawley, Worthing , Chichester
RH10 6HG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)