Freelance Reflective Practice Facilitator - North West

What you’ll do

You will:

• Plan and facilitate regular group reflective practice sessions for FBB practitioners.
• Create an inclusive, psychologically safe space, with clear agreements around participation, confidentiality, safeguarding, and escalation.
• Support practitioners to reflect on their work with young people, including challenging experiences, relationships, emotional responses, and professional decision-making.
• Use relevant frameworks: including attachment, trauma, adolescent development, and emotional regulation to deepen reflection without providing clinical assessment or directing case management.
• Help practitioners recognize relational patterns and consider how their own emotions, identity, assumptions, and experiences may influence their practice.
• Support practitioners to explore the influence of culture, power, inequality, and wider systems on their relationships with young people.
• Encourage learning from successes, setbacks, and difficult situations, enabling practitioners to identify insights they can apply to their work.
• Facilitate thoughtful consideration of professional boundaries, ethical questions, emotional impact, and sustainable practice.
• Respond appropriately to safeguarding, wellbeing, or professional concerns, escalating these through agreed FBB procedures where necessary.
• Share anonymised themes and organizational learning with the relevant FBB lead, within clearly agreed boundaries and without compromising the trust of the group.
• Complement FBB’s Practitioner Training Programme and wider approach to practitioner development.
• Review the effectiveness of the reflective practice offer with FBB and adapt the approach where appropriate.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for someone who:

• Is an experienced reflective practice facilitator, clinical supervisor, or practitioner supervisor.
• Has experience supporting professionals who work with vulnerable young people.
• Can build trust and create psychologically safe group environments.
• Understands trauma-informed and relationship-based practice.
• Is skilled at facilitating reflection without becoming overly directive.
• Can hold emotional complexity, challenge, and uncertainty with sensitivity and confidence.
• Understands professional boundaries, confidentiality, and safeguarding responsibilities.
• Can recognize when an issue needs to be escalated beyond the reflective practice space.
• Is committed to equity, inclusion, and culturally responsive practice.
• Is reliable, reflective, and able to work collaboratively while retaining appropriate professional independence.

Experience and expertise that may help

You might have a background in:

• Reflective practice or clinical supervision.
• Counselling, psychotherapy, or psychology.
• Youth work or social work.
• Education, mental health, or therapeutic services.
• Trauma-informed practice.
• Supporting frontline professionals working with children and young people.

A relevant professional qualification and supervision or facilitation training would be advantageous. We are particularly interested in applicants who combine strong theoretical understanding with experience of facilitating groups in complex frontline environments.

Safeguarding and confidentiality

Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do. The successful facilitator will be expected to understand and follow FBB’s safeguarding procedures, including the limits of confidentiality and the responsibility to escalate concerns appropriately.

The appointment will be subject to appropriate safeguarding and suitability checks, including references and an enhanced DBS check where required.

Freelance arrangement

The successful applicant will be engaged as an independent contractor and will be responsible for their own tax, National Insurance, insurance, and other statutory obligations.

The facilitator will be expected to:

• Deliver the agreed number of sessions according to an agreed schedule.
• Prepare appropriately for each session.
• Maintain suitable professional indemnity insurance.
• Comply with FBB’s safeguarding, data protection, and confidentiality requirements.
• Invoice FBB in line with the agreed payment arrangements.

How to apply

Please submit:

• Your CV.
• A short cover letter explaining your interest in the opportunity and the experience and approach you would bring.
• Your proposed day or sessional rate.
• Details of your availability from 1 September 2026.

Applications close on Monday 17 August 2026, with interviews taking place from Wednesday 19 August onwards.

You do not need to meet every requirement to apply. We particularly welcome applications from people whose identities, experiences, and backgrounds are underrepresented within the charity, education, therapeutic, and youth sectors.