Parent & Child Wellbeing Team | East Sussex Health Visiting Service
Are you passionate about supporting families during the most important early stages of life?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, skilled and compassionate practitioner to join our Parent & Child Wellbeing Team within the East Sussex Health Visiting Service. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a highly motivated, forward-thinking and supportive team, delivering impactful interventions that make a real difference to families across East Sussex.
Our team works at the heart of Family Hubs and Healthy Babies programmes, providing specialist support around perinatal mental health and parent–infant relationships. We are committed to delivering evidence-based, relationship-focused care that promotes emotional wellbeing, strengthens early attachment, and ensures every child has the best possible start in life.
You will join a passionate workforce that values collaboration, reflective practice and continuous development, working alongside Health Visitors, partner agencies and specialist mental health services. Together, we support families facing a wide range of challenges, offering timely interventions, guidance and compassionate care.
If you are looking for a role where you can truly make an impact, grow professionally and be part of a service that actively shapes the future of early help in East Sussex—we would love to hear from you.
The post holder will play a key role in delivering and developing perinatal mental health and parent–infant relationship support across East Sussex. This includes coordinating and facilitating Parent & Child Wellbeing interventions, undertaking triage and assessment of families, and providing advice and support to Health Visiting teams managing complex cases. The role involves working collaboratively with Family Hubs, Early Help services and specialist mental health teams to ensure families access the right support at the right time, while contributing to service development, training, and quality improvement. The practitioner will also line manage a team of Video Interactive Guidance Practitioners, offer supervision and guidance, promote best practice in perinatal and infant mental health, and ensure safeguarding, documentation and data collection are maintained to a high professional standard.
This role is ideal for someone who:
Is deeply committed to improving outcomes for babies, parents and families
Thrives in a dynamic, community-focused environment
Enjoys both autonomous working and being part of a strong, supportive team
Is motivated to contribute to service development and innovation
A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.
In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.
There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.
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If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
