Are you a passionate and experienced registered healthcare professional (Nurse, SCPHN, RMN or AHP) looking to make a meaningful difference to vulnerable children and families in the community?
Do you excel at building trusted therapeutic relationships and enjoy working within a supportive, strengths-based team culture?
Do you have experience supporting adults with emotional wellbeing needs, complex safeguarding concerns, and families facing multiple challenges?
Are you skilled in engaging hard-to-reach or disadvantaged communities with compassion, empathy and professionalism?
Would you like the opportunity to help shape and develop an innovative service alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team?
Join the Specialist Emotional Wellbeing Health Team
We are excited to offer one full-time opportunity for an exceptional healthcare professional to join our growing Specialist Emotional Wellbeing Health Team across West Sussex.
In this rewarding role, you will provide high-quality emotional wellbeing support to parents; undertaking assessments, developing tailored intervention plans, and working collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies and professionals.
This role involves working across West Sussex, with key team hubs based in:
Crawley
Horsham
Littlehampton
Chichester
Your base location will be determined in line with service needs.
Main Duties
Act as a Specialist Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner within the multidisciplinary Family Safeguarding Team, providing expert knowledge, clinical skills and evidence-based health interventions to support vulnerable families.
Deliver high-quality emotional wellbeing support to parents whose children are subject to child protection proceedings, including undertaking comprehensive assessments, planning and implementing tailored interventions, and evaluating outcomes to promote positive change.
Work directly with adults to build resilience, improve emotional wellbeing and support safer family environments through a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach.
Contribute to the development of the wider multidisciplinary team by delivering training, consultation, knowledge sharing and professional guidance to health and social care colleagues across the Family Safeguarding Model.
Develop effective collaborative relationships with partner agencies and professionals to ensure coordinated, holistic support for families across West Sussex.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
- Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
- Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
- Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
- Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
- Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
- Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values — Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence —guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Working within West Sussex County Council’s innovative Family Safeguarding Model, the successful candidate will join the multidisciplinary Family Safeguarding Team as a Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Practitioner. In this role, you will provide expert knowledge, specialist skills and evidence-based health interventions to support parents and families facing complex challenges.
You will work directly with parents to provide high-quality emotional wellbeing support, while also contributing to the wider multidisciplinary team through training, consultation and knowledge sharing with health and social care professionals.
Employed by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) and managed by the Family Safeguarding Clinical Lead, you will work closely alongside social workers and partner agencies to support families where there are significant concerns relating to parenting capacity, safeguarding, neglect and child welfare.
As part of this collaborative, strengths-based approach, you will:
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate tailored emotional wellbeing interventions for parents involved in child protection proceedings
Manage a defined community caseload, ensuring high standards of care, safeguarding and professional practice
Build effective working relationships with partner agencies to support coordinated care and positive outcomes for families
Provide supervision, guidance and support to colleagues, students and wider team members where appropriate
Contribute to the ongoing development of the Family Safeguarding Model through collaborative practice, reflective learning and service improvement
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary service committed to improving outcomes for children, adults and families across West Sussex.
