Family Support Practitioner

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Family Support Practitioner to join its Tiny Steps team. This full-time role involves delivering a home-visiting programme to support families facing challenges during their parenting journey. The successful candidate will possess significant experience in family support and the ability to offer clinical advice. Organizational support includes a comprehensive training package and the opportunity for flexible working arrangements. This position offers a salary ranging from £31,049 to £37,796 per annum with a commitment to family well-being.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in supporting families.
• Significant experience working in clients' own homes.
• Significant experience with promoting and enabling change in families.
• Experience with programmes like Solihull Approach, Emotion Coaching, 5ToThrive.
• Experience supporting and promoting breastfeeding relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver an intensive home-visiting, semi-structured programme of support and education for families.
• Create bespoke and individualised interventions to meet the unique needs of families.
• Partner with the local Family Nurse Partnership team.

Skills

Confidence to offer clinical advice and supervision to experienced and senior staff

Empathy and flexibility

Education

Community Nursery Nurse or Paediatric Nurse

Degree Level or Equivalent Experience

Tools

SystemOne

Job description

Main area Family Support Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full time, flexible working options available, must work Wednesday) Job ref 270-TG578-ACS

Site Wellingborough and East Northants Locality Town Wellingborough Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 08/01/2026 08:00

Job overview

Are you an experienced early years practitioner or staff nurse looking for a new challenge?

North Northamptonshire Best Start in Life Nurturing Families Pathway have an exciting opportunity to join the Tiny Steps team delivering an intensive home-visiting, semi-structured programme of support and education families who face challenges in their parenting journey from the antenatal period until the child reaches one year. We are looking for an enthusiastic and capable member of staff who has a sound knowledge of child development and public health objectives to play an important role in the delivery of the programme. The practitioner will be based with the local Family Nurse Partnership team, supported by the Named Family Nurse and working locally with the 0-19 teams and Named Tiny Steps Health Visitor. The successful applicant will deliver a personalised programme of visits to individual families within a designated caseload, within the family home.

Main duties of the job

The Tiny Steps programme includes a core programme of designed and structured sessions and a library of resources which can be used to create bespoke and individualised interventions to meet the unique needs of each family, the successful applicant will be confident, empathic and flexible in their approach, able to make changes to planned interventions during sessions to achieve the desired outcomes. They will receive regular individual restorative and safeguarding supervision and wider supervision with the relevant team members.

This role would suit an advanced nursery nurse or staff nurse who has the in-depth knowledge, skills and experience to give clinical advice and supervision to Health Visiting team colleagues in relation to delivering enabling interventions with families in need of additional support. This role requires resilient, well trained staff and a full training package will be in place prior to full commencement of the role. Please note this is a full time position.

The successful candidate will require excellent communication and team working skills and be able to build effective and positive relationships with service users, colleagues and partner agency staff.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Person specification

Knowledge

• Community Nursery Nurse or Paediatric Nurse
• Degree Level or Equivalent Experience
• Knowledge of attachment theory; self efficacy and the importance of local community for family wellbeing demonstrated in application form

Experience

• Significant experience in supporting families
• significant experience working in clients own homes
• Significant experience with promoting and enabling change in families
• Experience with programmes like Solihull Approach; Emotion Coaching; 5ToThrive
• Experience with SystemOne
• Experience supporting and promoting breastfeeding relationships

Skills

• Confidence to offer clinical advice and supervision to experienced and senior staff demonstrated in personal statement
• Empathy and flexibility demonstrated in personal statement

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We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

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At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.