Safer Spaces Practitioner - Family Help and MASH

London Social Work for Children; Enfield; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave up to 32 days

Hybrid remote/office work

Health and leisure discounts

Bike to work scheme

Training programme

Job summary

London Borough of Enfield is seeking a Safer Spaces Practitioner to join the integrated Family Help Partnership Hub. The role focuses on trauma-informed, child-centred assessment and coordinated multi-agency planning to protect children affected by domestic abuse.

You will work with social workers and lead practitioners, contributing to whole-family plans while ensuring the child's voice remains central in interventions. The post requires commitment to professional curiosity and good practice.

Qualifications

• Experience applying trauma-informed approaches in child and family settings.
• Ability to use strengths-based methods with vulnerable families.
• Commitment to child-centred assessment, planning and intervention.

Responsibilities

• Provide trauma-informed consultation to family help teams.
• Direct work with families to strengthen responses for children affected by domestic abuse.
• Contribute to single, whole-family plans with children's voice at the centre.
• Offer guidance on engagement approaches that are age-appropriate for children and young people.
• Support service development and professional learning through reflective supervision.

Skills

Trauma-informed

Strengths-based

Child-centred practice

Consultation skills

Job description

Safer Spaces Practitioner - Family Help and MASH

Enfield are looking to recruit a Safer Spaces Practitioner to join their newly established integrated multi-agency wrap-around Family Help Partnership Hub. This is a specialist role developed to ensure Enfield's family help response is child centred, trauma informed and aligned with national best practice, strengthening the visibility of children affected by domestic abuse within assessment, planning and intervention.

The Family Help Partnership Hub provides integrated, multi-disciplinary specialist support to family help teams, enabling earlier intervention, strengthening whole family working, and preventing escalation to statutory social care. Working alongside social workers and family help lead practitioners, the postholder will contribute to single, whole-family plans, ensuring the voice, experience and needs of children and young people are central to assessment, planning and intervention.

Enfield's leadership culture is grounded in openness, learning and shared responsibility, with a commitment to supporting staff with their wellbeing, alongside professional development and achieving best practice. You will be joining a service that has high standards, values professional curiosity, collective accountability and innovation, creating the conditions for everyone to do their best work to achieve positive outcomes for children and families. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing trauma-informed consultation and time-limited direct work to strengthen family help responses for children affected by domestic abuse
• Contributing to single, whole-family plans with the voice, experience and needs of children and young people at the centre
• Providing specialist consultation to family help case-holding practitioners on the impact of domestic abuse on children's emotional wellbeing, behaviour and development
• Sharing guidance around trauma-informed, age-appropriate approaches to engagement
• Applying a strengths-based approach to supporting children and families affected by domestic abuse

Enfield is committed to supporting staff to develop their skills and offers a comprehensive induction and a bespoke training programme available to everyone. You will receive high-quality support from an experienced manager and be given opportunities to contribute to service developments. For more information about Enfield's Centre of Excellence, please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/ .

About you

Enfield are looking for an enthusiastic and able practitioner who can demonstrate a good understanding of the diverse needs of children and show experience of applying a strengths-based approach to supporting children affected by domestic abuse. The successful candidate will share Enfield's commitment to professional curiosity, collective accountability and innovation, and be passionate about achieving positive outcomes for children and families.

The ideal candidate will:

• Demonstrate a good understanding of the diverse needs of children affected by domestic abuse
• Have experience of applying a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach in a relevant practice setting
• Be able to provide specialist consultation on the impact of domestic abuse on children's emotional wellbeing, behaviour and development
• Show knowledge of trauma-informed, age-appropriate approaches to engagement with children and young people
• Be committed to child-centred practice and ensuring the voice of children and young people is central to assessment, planning and intervention
• Share Enfield's values of openness, learning and shared responsibility

Enfield is passionate about its people and committed to building a more talented and diverse workforce. The authority is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

About Enfield

Enfield is one of the most diverse parts of London, with all the benefits this brings across our communities, culture, heritage and local economy. It also has incredibly diverse landscapes – from the urban centres of Edmonton, Southgate, Palmers Green and Enfield Town, to rural areas and farmland in the north of the borough.

Based in the bubbling heart of Enfield Town, situated in a modern newly designed service hub, the new office is an environment which supports our smart working policy surrounded by small businesses, bars, restaurants, a buzzing high street and shopping centre. Our brand new high-tech multiagency office has good transport links into central London and is easily assessable to the M25, A10 and A406.

We are proud of the services we offer to children and families living in the borough and work with partners to ensure children receive the best start in life. We are passionate about improving outcomes and driving up standards and performance. Ofsted has rated our children’s services as GOOD overall, read the full report here

Our offer to you include:

• A rewarding role in an Ofsted rated GOOD children’s services department
• Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office based working
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
• Modern purposefully designed working environment in Thomas Hardy House located 5 minutes from the station
• A clear career progression pathway, supported by a comprehensive training programme
• Smart technology assistance including hybrid video conferencing
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Enthusiastic and proactive staff network groups
• 1 month paid sabbatical for children’s social workers
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