About

Are you an experienced, registered healthcare professional (Nurse, SCPHN, RMN, AHP) with significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable and complex families?

Do you thrive on building therapeutic relationships with clients and working in a strengths based team culture?

Do you have experience of working with adults with emotional health and complex safeguarding needs?

Do you have experience of working with hard to reach or disadvantaged communities?

Are you excited by the opportunity to learn and develop a new service alongside your colleagues?

We have 2 part time opportunities within the Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Team!

We are looking for exceptional healthcare professional's who can provide high-quality emotional wellbeing support, assessing and planning interventions for parents, and can work collaboratively with a range of professionals in helping families across West Sussex. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside West Sussex County Council’s Family Safeguarding Model. The Family Safeguarding Model is a strengths-based model bringing together under one roof all the professionals needed to help families stay together and children remain safely at home.

Work will be across West Sussex with main team hubs located in Crawley, Horsham, Worthing and Chichester. Practitioner base will be dependent on service need.

Main Duties:
Act as a Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing practitioner providing expert knowledge, skills and health interventions within the multidisciplinary (MDT) family safeguarding team.

Provide high-quality emotional support to parents with children subject to child protection proceedings. This includes assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating interventions.

Work directly with both with adults and families, and indirectly through developing and delivering training and knowledge sharing with other health and social care professionals within the MDT.

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?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• 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.

a) The post holder, working within West Sussex County Council’s Family Safeguarding Model, will act as a Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Practitioner providing expert knowledge, skills and health interventions within the multidisciplinary (MDT) family safeguarding team. The post holder will work directly with parents, and indirectly through developing and delivering training and knowledge sharing with other health and social care professionals within the MDT.

b) Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health practitioners are employed by SCFT and managed by the Family Safeguarding Clinical Lead and work alongside a team of social workers and other social care professionals, working with parents where there is high risk of severe parenting problems including maltreatment and neglect.

c) As part of a multi-disciplinary approach, the post holder is responsible for providing high-quality emotional support to parents with children subject to child protection proceedings. This includes assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating interventions.

d) The post holder has the continuing responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload. There will be liaison with other agencies, supervision, deployment, and teaching of other staff and/or students.