Senior Practitioner Family Support

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As part of the Birmingham Forward Steps Partnership, we provide early years and family support for children aged 0–19 (or 25 with SEND). Our Children’s Centres and Family Hubs across Erdington, Hodge Hill, Perry Barr and Sutton Coldfield offer safe, welcoming spaces where families can access support, advice, and activities. From parenting groups and sensory rooms to health referrals and stay‑and‑play sessions, our experienced teams walk alongside families, helping them build on their strengths and navigate challenges.

We also offer links to childcare, midwifery, and employment support. Whether face‑to‑face or through our Digital Family Hub, everything we do is driven by compassion, fairness, and a commitment to children’s wellbeing. Join us and help make a difference where it matters most.

• Lead and manage the Family Support team to deliver effective support for families with children aged 0–19 (with a 0–5 primary focus).
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead, overseeing safeguarding practice, training and compliance.
• Ensure high‑quality assessments, planning and delivery of 1‑1 and group interventions.
• Provide reflective supervision, annual appraisals and support staff to develop their skills and confidence.
• Oversee adherence to Health & Safety, including Lone Working and safe home‑visiting practice.
• Build strong multi‑agency partnerships to achieve positive, sustained outcomes for families.
• Lead engagement strategies to reach and support hard‑to‑reach families.
• Ensure robust data quality, case recording and preparation for audits and inspections (e.g., Ofsted, safeguarding audits).

• Hold a NVQ Level 3 in Childcare, Health, Social Care or related field.
• Leadership experience, supervising, supporting and motivating staff.
• Experience in early intervention with vulnerable families, including assessments, home visits and group facilitation.
• Strong safeguarding knowledge and experience managing safeguarding concerns.
• Experience engaging hard‑to‑reach families and delivering evidence‑based family support programmes.
• Strong multi‑agency partnership working skills.
• Ability to maintain high‑quality case files, data records and monitoring information.

Spurgeons is one of the UK's leading children’s charities, firmly supported by Christian beliefs and values, helping to support vulnerable children and their families through delivering projects to support children, young people, their families, and communities to find long‑lasting solutions to the challenges they face. We create family hubs where we’re needed most, providing support with mental health, special educational needs, domestic abuse and all of family life’s challenges.

We work through children and family centres, churches, schools and prisons. Putting children first in everything.

• Continuous professional development
• In house learning platform
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Salary sacrifice pension with employer contribution of up to 7%
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• BHFS Health Cash Plan
• Life assurance 2 times annual salary
• Enhanced annual leave
• Additional paid time off at Christmas Flu vouchers
• Eye test reclaim

If you want to find out more about working at Spurgeons please visit our website
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We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people we serve. This post is subject to necessary safeguarding checks including an appropriate level DBS Disclosure.

Spurgeons is a Living Wage Employer.

We actively encourage applications from a broad and deep range of backgrounds and experiences. We are a Disability Confident Employer.