Somerset Council
Professional Practitioner
Bridgwater
£37.2k – £41.8k/yr
Posted 13 days ago
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Closing date: 13/07/2026 Salary: Grade 10, ranging from £37,280 to £41,771 per annum Location: Bridgwater (Permanent, 37-hour position, flexible hybrid model)
Professional Practitioner – Family Intervention Team
Role Summary
The Professional Practitioner is a pivotal role focused on supporting families to overcome challenges and improve wellbeing. This involves:
- Providing direct intervention services
- Developing individualised support plans
- Collaborating with professionals to deliver comprehensive care
- Addressing parenting issues, family dynamics, and crisis management
- Ensuring safe, nurturing environments for all family members
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct holistic, professional assessments of children, young people, and families, including risk of harm (serious) and influencing intervention effectiveness.
- Deliver evidence-based interventions, maintaining accurate, timely records for multi-agency collaboration.
- Conduct good practice reviews, audits, and evaluations to refine services and team performance.
- Partner with multi-agency teams to safeguard children/youth with complex needs, maximising resource efficiency while fostering sustainability.
- Influence decision-making among partners, ensuring behaviour change and appropriate interventions.
- Build professional relationships with clients, carers, colleagues, and agencies—focusing on risk reduction, vulnerability mitigation, and sustained positive change.
- Develop expertise in thematic areas (e.g., physical/emotional health, domestic abuse, education) via research, training, and cross-team mentorship.
- Contribute to programme development (e.g., DDP, Theraplay, Non-Violent Resistance parenting) and enable staff training.
- Supervise a team of Family Intervention Workers (FIWs), ensuring adherence to protocol and best practice, and participate in capability/disciplinary processes.
- Be the caseholder for complex cases, offering guidance and joint supervision to junior staff.
- Lead Rapid Response & out-of-hours services, including rotating “lates” (2pm–10pm) and “earlies” (7am–3pm) shifts every six weeks (weekends included).
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Requirements
Essential
- Degree-level qualification (or NVQ Level 6) in fields such as social work, psychotherapy, psychology, youth work, health, education, or equivalent family-work experience with a proven outcomes focus.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development, with knowledge of evidenced-based practice.
- Proficiency in performance management and quality assurance frameworks.
- Understanding of equality and diversity in service delivery and community engagement.
- Knowledge of family dynamics, particularly adolescent development, attachment theory, and conflict resolution.
- Experience in multi-agency partnerships and holistic assessments.
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- Solution-oriented approach, with skills in:
- Creating SMART intervention plans
- Providing practical, family-focused support
- Case direction decision-making for day-to-day progression
- Ability to develop effective decision-making, with reflective supervision and mentorship skills.
- Autonomy, team-working, collegiality: Must recognise when to consult superiors on critical risks.
- Fluent English (covered under UK Immigration Act 2016).
- Must share expertise in working with vulnerable families (covers desirables as generic knowledge).
Desirable (not explicitly repeated)
- Relevant Level 4 qualification
- Problem-solving with financial resource constraints
Additional Information
- Annual leave: 30 days (incl. bank holidays).
- Vehicle access required: role operates in communities for direct interventions.
- Out-of-hours commitment (rotating shifts cover 24/7 needs).
No visa sponsorship available for international applicants.
Contact:
For informal enquiries, email: Carys.Quinn@somerset.gov.uk
Interview Date: 23/07/2026
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Skills
Holistic Assessment
Evidence-Based Practice
Partnership Working
Family Dynamics
Crisis Management
Child-Centred Approach
Supervisory Skills
Performance Management
Quality Assurance
Community Engagement
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