Job Title: Senior Practitioner
Location: Epsom, Surrey
Salary: £42,640 – £44,086 per year – depending on experience
Job type: 37.5 hours per week. Full-time, permanent. Hybrid working. This role can also be based in Bromsgrove, Birmingham.
The Company:
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is the only UK-wide charity dedicated solely to preventing child sexual abuse. We’re bold, we’re pioneering, we’re growing, and we want your help.
Since 1992 we’ve kept children safe by working with people who have harmed them or who might do so, to help them stop. We work with adults worried about their own sexual thoughts, feelings or behaviour towards children; adults worried about another adult or young person; young people themselves; and with protective adults and professionals.
About you:
We are looking for an energetic professional, who is proactive and outcome focused with exceptional communication, relationship and leadership skills. You will be able to demonstrate confidence in translating the Foundation’s mission into direct child protection practice and an ability to lead teams in delivering quality, research-led interventions.
About the role:
As a Senior Practitioner you will:
- Steer our skilled practitioners in delivering an evidence informed service and take responsibility for the clinical integrity of our direct work
- Carry out complex assessments, interventions and consultancy in your own right for the Legal Aid Authority, Local Authorities and other institutions in cases where sexual abuse is known or suspected as well as support our Stop It Now! Helpline and contribute to wider service developments within the Foundation
- Ensure our approach and guidance are all refreshed with emerging research and new innovation
Duties and responsibilities:
Clinical Leadership
- Ensure evidenced and effective clinical decision making operates in your lead area in line with LFF policy
- Undertake and gatekeep assessments of and reports referred by statutory agencies, civil and criminal courts, solicitors and other organisations
- Undertake direct therapeutic work with adults, young people and/or families in line with areas of expertise
- Provide clinical consultations to other professionals and agencies
- Support the efficiency, quality and delivery of interventions across LFF, including routine reporting on beneficiary numbers on lead area(s)
- Collaborate with managers and Directors in bidding for and delivering contracts and grants
Management
- Provide line management supervision of designated practitioners in accordance with LFF policies and procedures
- Ensure regular supervision of designated staff is in line with LFF policies
- Regularly undertake appraisal and review progress to agreed goals to support LFF strategy
- Provide practice supervision to other practitioners and support to Stop It Now! Helpline staff in dealing with enquiries, especially related to your lead area(s)
Project Management
- Deliver activity in line with agreed operational and financial targets
- Evaluate delivery and provide reports as part of a dedicated quality management system for your lead area
Training
- Assist with the development, delivery and promotion of LFF training events and consultancy services
- Assist with the quality assurance of training material
- Deliver training event within skill and knowledge set.
Experience and skills:
- Educated to degree level
- Significant practice experience working with perpetrators of child sexual abuse and/or their victims and protective adults
- A thorough up to date understanding of child sexual abuse/sex offending, latest sector research and the range of interventions available
- A thorough up to date understanding of child sexual abuse/public health prevention models and their application
- Knowledge and experience of assessments and interventions in criminal and/or family settings
- Skills in risk assessment, preparing reports and providing consultation and training to professionals and the public.
- Experience of direct therapeutic work, intervening with alleged and convicted offenders and non-offending parents/partners.
Benefits:
- 33 days holiday per year (including bank holidays) increasing to 38 days after 5 years’ successful service
- NEST Pension
- Employee Assistance programme
- Optional Benenden medical cover
- Hybrid working – upon completion of probation
Please click on the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Senior Social Worker, Senior Probation Officer, Therapeutic Care, Senior Care Support Worker, Senior Care Worker, Public Health, Care Assistant, Domiciliary Support, Child Care, Support Team Leader, Senior Residential Care, Senior Child Care Worker, Child Support Worker, Senior Adult Care and Healthcare Official may also be considered for this role.
