Safer Spaces Practitioner - Family 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  .

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

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