Senior Family Practitioner - Family Support - 2524 - #1798077

Senior Practitioner – Family Support

Are you a confident, values-driven leader who believes that strong families build strong communities? At Spurgeons, we walk alongside families during life’s most challenging times. As our new Senior Practitioner – Family Support, you’ll lead a passionate team delivering life-changing support for children aged 0–19 (25 with SEND) and their families, helping them build resilience, thrive together, and access the right help at the right time.

What Your Week May Look Like

• Provide leadership, direction, and supervision to our Family Practitioners – Family Support, helping them deliver outstanding 1-to-1 and group support to families facing diverse needs
• Act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead for your locality, ensuring high standards of child protection and safe practice across your team.
• Oversee targeted family support interventions, parenting programmes, and home visits, ensuring high-quality outcomes that make a genuine difference.
• Support child and parent engagement in shaping their plans and services, putting families at the heart of decisions.
• Drive innovation and best practice in family support, and work closely with health visitors, early years leads, and other agencies to provide joined-up, child-centred support.
• Champion reflective supervision, team learning, and professional growth to build a high-performing, resilient team.
  
  

This isn’t just a job. It’s a chance to lead from the front, supporting not only families, but also the practitioners who walk beside them.

You’ll bring…

• A Level 3 qualification (or higher) in Childcare, Health or Social Care, and strong experience managing complex casework
• Proven experience of leading family support teams, with a commitment to safeguarding and delivering impactful early intervention.
• Confident, motivational leadership that nurtures growth, encourages innovation, and drives improvement.
• Expertise in working with vulnerable families, running assessments, and managing parenting programmes or targeted interventions.
• Skills in reflective supervision, performance management, partnership working, and safeguarding leadership.
• A calm, solution-focused approach—and the flexibility to work across sites and lead services responsively.
  
  

Why join Spurgeons?

Because we don’t believe in ticking boxes, we believe in changing lives. Because we value compassion, fairness and commitment, and because you deserve to lead a team where you’re trusted, supported, and inspired to grow.

Bring your leadership, your heart, and your expertise. Help us build stronger families, stronger teams, and stronger communities. Apply now and lead the way in shaping a brighter future for Birmingham’s families.

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.

If you want to find out more about working at Spurgeons please visit our website.

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.