Advanced Practitioner

Brighton & Hove City Council; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking an experienced Advanced Practitioner to join the Partners in Change Hub in Portslade. The role supports social workers and keyworkers working with children and families with complex needs, delivering interventions and providing specialist guidance.

You will lead practice improvements in domestic abuse work, supervise other practitioners, deliver learning events, and support group work within a multi‑agency environment to improve outcomes for children

Qualifications

• Must hold a Professional Social Work, youth work or nursing qualification and be registered with the relevant body.
• Significant practice experience and specialist knowledge in domestic abuse including working with survivors and perpetrators.
• Ability to supervise other practitioners, deliver learning events and support group work.
• Able to drive change and work well within multi‑agency contexts.

Responsibilities

• Lead improvements in practice in the area of domestic abuse.
• Provide interventions directly to families and advise Family Help practitioners.
• Supervise and support staff; deliver learning events and reflective practice groups.
• Work across multi‑agency partners to develop best practice for children and families.

Skills

Domestic abuse knowledge

Supervision

Learning delivery

Group work facilitation

Evidence-based assessments

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Registered with the relevant body

Job description

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Salary Salary: £49,817 - £53,051 plus market supplement of 6.25%

Basis Fixed Hours

Job profile for Advanced Practitioner

Advanced Practitioner

Portslade Hub, Mile Oak Road, Portslade, BN41 2PG 15/11/2026

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Salary: £49,817 - £53,051 plus market supplement of 6.25%

Contractual hours: 37

Basis: Fixed Hours

Package: We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type: Social Work - Children

Date posted: 28/09/2026

Job reference: REQ0001570

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Job description

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 an 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'.

Advacned Practitioners are experienced in working with families under social work and early help, who work across our Family Help pods. Advanced 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 Family 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 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 perpetrators 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.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti‑racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

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.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.