Specialist Emotional Wellbeing Health Practitioner Family Safeguarding

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

• 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Daisy Waterfall Job title: Clinical Lead (Family Safeguarding) Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 07483969179

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