Job Description

Job overview

Band 6 - Family Practitioner (Mental Health)

Fixed Term/Temporary Contract (until end February 2026)

37.5hrs Full Time

Family Safeguarding Team - Dudley LocalityBlack Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHFT)

A very exciting opportunity has developed within Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust!!

We are recruiting into a new Family Safeguarding Team within BCHFT.

Professional qualification and active registration is essential for this role (Nurse, Social Worker, OT, and Allied Health Professional).

The post holder will be employed by BCHFT for the duration of the contract (noted above) and will be based within the Dudley Local Authority Safeguarding Team.

Main duties of the job

Family Safeguarding is a "Whole Family Approach" to working with children and families that supports parents to create sustained change for themselves and for their family.

The purpose of the service is to provide psychological and mental health support to the adults within a family concerning their safeguarding needs.

The post holder will be part of a team who work with the parents of families under the Family Safeguarding Model.

This fresh approach allows practitioners to focus on the '

whole family'

and makes it easier for parents to access support that they need, to help them deal with the complex issues of domestic abuse, mental health and drug/alcohol abuse that harm their lives and those of their children.

The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and will work directly with the parent providing help and support to create lasting change. In your role you will demonstrate your ability to support and provide a level of containment to some of the most complex of clients and may assist in opening pathways to secondary care where required.

Working for our organisation

The Family Safeguarding model is built on core foundations of social work practice with shared values across the partnership workforce including:

Supporting the development of stable relationships Having a shared model across agencies A focus on strengths and balance with need Promoting purposeful interactions

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The model requires the use of Motivational Interviewing to harness motivation to change and make it easier to access help. By using motivational practice to enable many more parents to accept help, Family Safeguarding provides specially designed individual and group work programs to change abusive behaviours, improve parental mental health and reduce harmful substance misuse. There will be an expectation that group work is facilitated and undertaken with those parents who are assessed as appropriate participants.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Knowledge and skills of working within a diverse client group Experience of managing and organising own workload Knowledge of governmental directives and current policies in relation to families and safeguarding Professional Registration - EG OT, RMN, Social Worker

Desirable criteria

An understanding of the context of children's safeguarding Knowledge of safeguarding issues for children and adults
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 10 months

Pay: 37,338.00-44,962.00 per year

Benefits:

Additional leave Bereavement leave Canteen Childcare Company car Company events Company pension Cycle to work scheme Discounted or free food Employee discount Employee mentoring programme Enhanced maternity leave Enhanced paternity leave Flexitime Free flu jabs Free or subsidised travel Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Referral programme Relocation assistance Sabbatical Sick pay Store discount Transport links
Schedule:

Day shift Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:

Dudley DY1 2LZ: reliably commute or be willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (preferred)
Experience:

working with families: 1 year (preferred) working with children: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:

Professional Registration eg Nurse, OT, Social Worker (required) Driving Licence (required) knowledge of care system and court system (desirable) (preferred) knowledge of motivational interviewing (desirable) (preferred)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Willingness to travel:

25% (preferred)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 285-0481-CYPF