Job Title: Children's Practitioner-Trauma Focused
Starting Salary: £33,366 pa Progressing to £36,124 pa
Hours: Full Time ( Part Time will be considered )
Location: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Fixed- Term and Secondment Opportunity until 30.11.2025
Directorate: Childrens Services

About the team

This is an exciting opportunity to join Trauma Hub and work therapeutically with children, young people, families and professional networks, with a focus on the impact of trauma.

The Trauma Hub’s focus is to embed trauma informed practice across Children’s Social Care, and the successful candidate’s role will have a focus on supporting children, young people and families open to CLA and 0-25 teams.

The Trauma Hub is an evidence-based approach to improving trauma focused support across children’s social care. It comprises of a Trauma Focused Practice Lead who supports policy and practice in relation to responding to trauma, Trauma Focused Service Leads / Trainers who provide formal and informal learning opportunities, case consultations, reflective spaces and a small case load of direct interventions, and Trauma Focused Practitioners who deliver therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families.

Due to career progression, we are now seeking to recruit a Trauma Focused Practitioner for the remainder of the project. The post can be offered as a secondment or fixed term role opportunity until 30th November 2025.

About the role

As a Trauma Focused Practitioner you will be responsible for:

Supporting the Trauma Hub in embedding trauma-informed practice through contributing to case consultations and network meetings, completing Trauma Lines and working directly with children, young people and families who are open to CLA and 0-25 and have been identified as benefitting from trauma informed support. The role will largely be focused on supporting main care givers (e.g. parent/ foster carer) to parent children who have experienced trauma through the principles of NVR and/ or ARC. It will also include some direct work with children and young people, either directly or in partnership with their main care givers.

Whilst not essential to the role there may also be opportunity to:

• Support facilitation of NVR parent groups
• Undertake TLSW (Therapeutic Life Story Work)
• Facilitate reflective spaces for staff teams
• Support with training development and delivery
• Support with wider projects being developed by the trauma hub.

• Trauma focused practitioners will also be expected to provide activity and outcome data to support monitoring and evaluation of the training received, the interventions delivered and the wider community of practice model.

• To ensure that case recordings and other relevant documents are child-focused and completed in a timely manner

About you

Essential:

• Full UK Driving Licence and access to own vehicle
• Previous experience in direct work with children and families.
• Ability to work autonomously whilst being a team player.
• Trained in Non-Violence Resistance
• Ability to work flexibly including some evening visits

Desirable:

• A good understanding of developmental trauma.
• Trained in ARC / understand the ARC framework. (Successful candidates will be trained in ARC, if they have not already completed the training).
• Trained in Therapeutic Life Story Work
• Experience of working with individuals with neurodiversity and/ or additional needs
• Excellent organisational skills to ensure that work is prioritised and completed within the set timescales.