Edge-of-Care Family Solutions Practitioner

Telford & Wrekin; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

Flexible and mobile working

Excellent learning and development opp

£25 per day weekend on-call payment

Additional payment for hours on call

Job summary

Telford & Wrekin Council is seeking a Family Solutions Response Practitioner to join our Edge of Care and Crisis Response service. The role provides intensive, family-based interventions intended to prevent care entry and to help keep children safely at home whenever possible.

You will work with children, young people, and families facing crisis, conduct strengths-based assessments, and support practical, sustainable plans while collaborating closely with social workers and local services.

Qualifications

• Experience working with vulnerable children, young people and families.
• Ability to build positive, trusting relationships during crisis.
• Strong communication, mediation and conflict resolution skills.
• Resilience, emotional intelligence and sound professional judgement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver intensive family-based interventions during periods of crisis.
• Work directly with children, young people and families experiencing complex challenges.
• Support children to remain safely within their family and community networks wherever possible.
• Undertake strengths-based assessments and identify family-led solutions.
• Use mediation, conflict resolution and relationship-based approaches to support families through crisis situations.
• Support young people at risk of homelessness, family breakdown or care entry.
• Work alongside families to develop practical, realistic and sustainable plans.
• Support placement stability and reunification planning.
• Build strong partnerships with social workers, education, health, housing and community services.
• Ensure children's voices remain central to all planning and intervention.
• Contribute to safeguarding assessments, risk management and safety planning.
• Promote positive, sustainable outcomes for children and families.

Job description

Telford & Wrekin Council is seeking a Family Solutions Response Practitioner to join our Edge of Care and Crisis Response service. The role provides intensive, family-based interventions intended to prevent care entry and to help keep children safely at home whenever possible.

You will work with children, young people, and families facing crisis, conduct strengths-based assessments, and support practical, sustainable plans while collaborating closely with social workers and local services.