Family Help Parenting Practitioner - Ref: CH04225

Family Help Parenting Practitioner - Ref: CH04225

Grade: G7; Salary Range: £32,654 - £37,035 (Pay Award Pending)

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

About the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Parenting Practitioner to join our Youth in Sight team on a 12-month fixed term contract. Youth in Sight is a multi-disciplinary team working with adolescents aged 10-18 years who present with complex needs relating to their mental health or emotional dysregulation. This will include young people with repeat hospital admissions and those that are likely to require therapeutic care without early intervention and the provision of services to them and their families to support them to remain safely within their family home.

Walsall Children's Social Care are dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate services for children and young people. We believe in nurturing the potential of every young person, and we are seeking passionate professionals to join our multidisciplinary team in our mission to support adolescents (10-18 years old) during a crucial phase of their development.

We are looking for a dynamic and empathetic individual to join our multidisciplinary team to empower, understand and support adolescents and their families at times of need. The team adopts a holistic and coordinated approach when working with parents, the young person and the system that surrounds the family. We believe that by establishing a strengths-based approach and relational way of working with families we will build authentic relationships and secure positive outcomes.

The Youth In Sight team includes a social workers, parenting practitioner, systemic family therapist, youth worker and speech and language therapist who adopt a relational approach and work with a small cohort of young people, giving you the time and space to work intensively with the family and be able to make considered and balanced decisions. You will have access to the collective expertise of disciplines, enhancing your capacity to develop effective solutions and contemplate the broader context.

Youth in Sight use components of the family safeguarding model to create a sense of unity within the team and ensure families are receiving meaningful intervention. As a parenting practitioner within the team, you will partake in Group Supervisions every 4 weeks to measure success, reflect on your intervention with the family and identify any areas of concern. Team members will use a shared database to ensure information is accessible and shared with each other promptly. All team members are trained to use the 'Valuing Care Tool' to help us really understand a young person's needs and be able to measure impact of our support and intervention.

We want every child and family in Walsall to be understood, happy and safe, and to feel a sense of belonging which will help them learn, achieve and succeed. We're applying this vision to everything we do for children, young people and families.

About you

As a parenting practitioner within the team, you will have a Level 3 or equivalent and / or vocational qualifications or a minimum of 12 months experience working with children and families.

You will work directly with families to provide tailored parenting support, guidance, and interventions aimed at improving parenting skills and family dynamics through relational and strengths-based practice.

You will collaborate with the wider partnership to secure support and form a holistic view of the family's circumstances, and adopt a 'Think Family' approach when considering the needs of the whole family unit.

You will advocate on behalf of the young person and their family and provide parenting support in flexible ways to meet need and influence positive outcomes for children and young people.

You will have excellent communication skills and be able to work with children, young people and families in an open, honest and transparent way, working in partnership with them to ensure their voice is heard and they are actively involved in decisions about their lives.

You will contribute to a positive and supporting team environment, promoting collaboration and sharing knowledge and expertise.

As a parenting practitioner within the Youth In Sight team you will have access to specialist training commissioned by the Practice Development Hub.

You will demonstrate commitment to your own practice development and continued professional development.

Why work for Walsall?

Walsall is an innovative and creative local authority, but above all our friendly supportive culture ensures practitioners have the right support to grow and develop.

You are part of a challenging profession, that's why we ensure you are never alone but instead surrounded by approachable practitioners and managers. Allowing you to spend time on what counts, direct work with children young people and families.

Career development pathways and flexible hybrid working will make you want Walsall to be in your future!

Walsall is where innovation really happens. Our Families First offering is leading the way in the transformation of regional and national approaches too, and we're one of only ten local authorities working this way. Our multi-agency structure is already established and we're going to continue to innovate to ensure better outcomes form children and young people

Walsall is a truly exciting place to be where you can make a difference to every family. If you share our vision, shouldn't you be here too?

Families First

We're committed to creating a culture of supporting families to overcome challenges and to stay together and thrive. Or where that isn't possible, for family networks to offer safe, loving and stable homes and keep children out of local authority care

Family Service: Family networks will be placed at the heart of our practice, as we recognise the importance of engaging the wider systems around a family as early as we can so that children and young people remain living at home or with their families.

Family Help: Our family help service will align our family safeguarding model and targeted early help teams in supporting children, young people and families as soon as possible.

Child Protection: We've created a new role of Lead Child Protection Practitioner, and you simply won't find that anywhere else. We're continuing to develop our multi-agency child protection team. It's all about developing systems and practices with partners including the police, health, and probation services to form an expert network of child protection leads and specialists.

Looking after you

We're committed to growing and developing our own workforce. So you'll be supported throughout your career to become skilled and confident through our learning and development offer.

We also want you to achieve and maintain a healthy work life balance and there ' s a range of employee benefits to suit everyone ' s lifestyles.

• Flexible working - there are different options depending on your role and on customer and service needs, and it includes 9-day fortnights, flexible and hybrid working
• Clinical Supervision
• A commitment across our service to Equality Diversity and Inclusion
• Established learning and development frameworks

About the rewards

We're committed to creating a high-quality and valued workforce where you can feel cared about and listened to. You'll have managers available to guide you, plus access to our comprehensive practice development training. There's also continuous professional development, opportunities for networking and collaboration, and clinical supervision that promotes your wellbeing.

As well as a competitive salary, you can look forward to a generous pension scheme, 28 days' annual leave (pro-rata) plus 5 additional days for 5 years continuous local government service, family friendly policies, flexible and hybrid working arrangements for your life-work balance, and a progressive health and wellbeing agenda led by a dedicated team.

Would you like to talk to a practitioner about the realities of working in Walsall?

If so, please contact Rebecca Warren, Group Manager, Help and Protection, who will connect you with one of our practitioners: or

Should you wish to have an informal discussion or find out more about this position, please do not hesitate to contact me Rebecca Warren, Group Manager or the Youth In Sight Team Manager Leanne Adshead

Closing date for applications is 24 th August 2025. If you are interested in applying for this position, please complete the application including supporting information by the closing date of 24 th August 2025.

Interviews will take place week beginning 1 st September 2025.

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This post is covered by the Government's Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment . click apply for full job details