Advanced Practitioner in Portslade

Are you a skilled social care professional with a passion to support other professionals?

Are you able to support our service to deliver outstanding domestic abuse interventions?

Are you able to work independly and with partner agecnies to take forward improvements in domestic abuse strategic work?

We have an exciting opportunity for the right person to join us as a Advanced Practitioner in our Partners in Change Hub.

The Partners in Change hub brings together a range of specialist professionals to support social workers and keyworkers who are working with children and families with complex needs. As well as social workers, the team includes mental health and substance misuse practitioners, therapists and psychologists. The Partners in Change hub was recognised by Ofsted as 'a highly effective service for children, families and workers throughout children’s social care services'.

Advanced Practitioners are experienced in working with families under social work and early help, who work across our Family Help pods. Advacned Practitioners help social workers and keyworkers to provide the best support possible to families and children. Advanced Practitioners provide advice to Family Help practitioners (social workers, managers and keyworkers) as well as delivering interventions directly to families. They take forward strategic plans for the service and connect with local partners to develop better practice. Advanced Practitioners also facilitate Reflective Practice Groups for staff and provide learning and development opportunities. We are looking to recruit a practitioner who can lead improvments in practice in the area of domestic abuse.

We have recognised that we need to do further work to support families and communities who experience racism in the city and to support our staff from Black and Global Majority communities. As a council we have made a commitment to being an anti-racist organisation and we have set up an Anti-Racist Project to make sure we achieve this within children's Famiy Help services. We would particularly encourage applications from candidates who identify as from a Black or Global Majority community.

You must hold a Professional Social Work, youth work or nursing qualification qualification and be registered with the relevant body. In addition, you must have significant practice experience and be able to demonstrate specialist knowledge in an area of practice, for this post we are interested in candidates with knowledge of domestic abuse, including child to parent abuse, violence against women and girls, and work with survivors and perpatrators of abuse. Candidates must also have the ability to improve the practice of others in order to make a difference for children and families. You should have some experience of supervising other practitioners, delivering learning events, and supporting group work. You will need to have excellent skills for engaging children and their families and completing assessments informed by evidence. The role requires you to be willing to develop and deliver direct interventions. You should also be able to drive change and work well within a multi-agency context.

Contract type: This role is permanent.

Interviews to be held: 24th November 2026 at Portslade Hub, Mile Oak Road, Portslade.

There is full information about the role above and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Kate Townsend, Partners in Change Pod Manager at kate.townsend@brighton-hove.gov.uk


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We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

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Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

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