Family Support Practitioner

NHS; Wellingborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare trust in Wellingborough seeks a Family Support Practitioner for an intensive home-visiting programme aimed at supporting families during critical early years. The role requires significant experience in family support, knowledge of child development, and strong communication skills. This full-time position involves creating individualized interventions and working closely with healthcare teams to promote family well-being. Successful candidates will receive comprehensive training to prepare for the role.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in supporting families, especially in home environments.
• Experience with programmes like Solihull Approach; Emotion Coaching; 5ToThrive.
• Experience supporting and promoting breastfeeding relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a personalised programme of visits to families.
• Create bespoke interventions to meet unique family needs.
• Collaborate with the Family Nurse Partnership team.

Skills

Confidence to offer clinical advice

Empathy

Flexibility

Education

Community Nursery Nurse or Paediatric Nurse

Degree Level or Equivalent Experience

Tools

SystemOne

Job description

Go back Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Family Support Practitioner

The closing date is 08 January 2026

Are you an experienced early years practitioner or staff nurse looking for a new challenge?

North Northamptonshire Best Start in Life Nurturing Families Pathway have an exciting opportunity to join the Tiny Steps team delivering an intensive home‑visiting, semi‑structured programme of support and education to families who face challenges in their parenting journey from the antenatal period until the child reaches one year. We are looking for an enthusiastic and capable member of staff who has a sound knowledge of child development and public health objectives to play an important role in the delivery of the programme. The practitioner will be based with the local Family Nurse Partnership team, supported by the Named Family Nurse and working locally with the 0‑19 teams and Named Tiny Steps Health Visitor. The successful applicant will deliver a personalised programme of visits to individual families within a designated caseload, within the family home.

Main duties of the job

The Tiny Steps programme includes a core programme of designed and structured sessions and a library of resources which can be used to create bespoke and individualised interventions to meet the unique needs of each family. The successful applicant will be confident, empathic and flexible in their approach, able to make changes to planned interventions during sessions to achieve the desired outcomes. They will receive regular individual restorative and safeguarding supervision and wider supervision with the relevant team members.

This role would suit an advanced nursery nurse or staff nurse who has the in‑depth knowledge, skills and experience to give clinical advice and supervision to Health Visiting team colleagues in relation to delivering enabling interventions with families in need of additional support. This role requires resilient, well‑trained staff and a full training package will be in place prior to full commencement of the role. Please note this is a full‑time position.

The successful candidate will require excellent communication and team‑working skills and be able to build effective and positive relationships with service users, colleagues and partner agency staff.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be "outstanding" by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Community Nursery Nurse or Paediatric Nurse
• Degree Level or Equivalent Experience
• Knowledge of attachment theory; self efficacy and the importance of local community for family wellbeing demonstrated in application form

Experience

• Significant experience in supporting families
• significant experience working in clients own homes
• Significant experience with promoting and enabling change in families
• Experience with programmes like Solihull Approach; Emotion Coaching; 5ToThrive
• Experience with SystemOne
• Experience supporting and promoting breastfeeding relationships

Skills

• Confidence to offer clinical advice and supervision to experienced and senior staff demonstrated in personal statement
• Empathy and flexibility demonstrated in personal statement

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Wellingborough and East Northants Locality

Based from Campbell House Northampton / Isebrook Hospital Wellingborough