Family Safeguarding Mental Health Practitioner
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Safeguarding Mental Health Practitioner to join the Family Safeguarding Adult Team, working closely with Children’s Social Care colleagues to support whole‑family change and improve outcomes for children.
We welcome applications from Social work, RMN and professionally qualified backgrounds with an up to date registration.
The Team
The Family Safeguarding Adult Team is integrated into Children’s Social Care services, providing intervention with parents & carers to actively support change, with the intention to help more children to live safely at home.
The key focus is to work collaboratively and in partnership with families to tackle vulnerability and their individual needs. This includes providing specialist advice and guidance to professionals and undertaking direct work with parents / carers to address their assessed mental health, substance use and domestic abuse needs. This aims to improve their parenting skills and capacity to achieve and sustain positive change. This also includes liaising with established adult services where additional specialist provision is required.
In this role you will
- Assess, plan and deliver mental health interventions to parents/carers where mental health impacts parenting capacity
- Provide specialist mental health assessments, formulation and risk assessment
- Work collaboratively within a Team Around the Worker and multi‑disciplinary framework
- Respond flexibly to crisis presentations and support safety planning where required
- Contribute to child and adult safeguarding processes, including MARAC
- Deliver restorative and strengths‑based interventions, including Motivational Interviewing
- Offer advice, consultation and guidance to Children’s Social Care professionals
- Maintain high‑quality records and contribute to reports for reviews, conferences and court
- Participate in supervision, reflective practice, learning reviews and quality assurance
- Contribute to workforce development, including delivering training where appropriate
The ideal candidate
You will be a confident, reflective practitioner with experience of working with adults with complex mental health needs and an understanding of the impact of adult needs on children and parenting.
- Relevant professional qualification and registration (e.g. Social Work, RMN or equivalent) or extensive relevant experience
- Experience working in mental health services (community or inpatient)
- Experience of working with complexity, including domestic abuse and substance use
- Strong understanding of adult and children’s safeguarding
- Ability to work autonomously and within a multi‑professional setting
- Trauma‑informed, strengths‑based and restorative approach
- Excellent communication, analytical and organisational skills
- Ability to manage a caseload in a busy, emotionally demanding environment
- Strong IT and recording skills
Working arrangements
This role is fully office based; there is no hybrid working.
Employment Conditions
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
We are a disability confident employer and an Armed Forces Covenant gold standard.
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
Safeguarding
Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Partnership safer recruitment procedures.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) at Standard/Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Please read the relevant DBS privacy notice before submitting any information.
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