For Babys Sake Practitioner

This role is only being offered as a secondment opportunity. If you wish to apply for this role on a secondment basis, you must seek your Managers agreement before formally applying. If you are formally at risk/on notice of redundancy, and are interested in this opportunity please contact your HR Advisor for a discussion.

Contract Type: Secondment until 31/03/2027

Hours: 37 per week

Salary: NJC Grade H2 SCP 31-35 £41,771 - £46,142 plus 2 additional increments for evening and weekend working 

Closing Date: 5th March 2026 12 Noon 

This role is only being offered as a secondment opportunity. If you wish to apply for this role on a secondment basis, you must seek your manager’s agreement before formally applying

We are recruiting an experienced Therapeutic Practitioner to support us in our delivery of For Baby’s Sake, an exciting partnership between the For Baby’s Sake Trust www.forbabyssake.org.uk and Blackpool Council.

For Baby’s Sake is an innovative, therapeutic, trauma-informed programme. We work with both co-parents individually, supporting a recovery framework to overcome the devastating effects of domestic abuse in their relationship. We acknowledge and explore unresolved and often complex childhood trauma and change harmful patterns of behaviour to develop a home environment where children can flourish. We adopt an attachment-focused parenting approach that enhances the opportunity for children to feel safe and secure, with parents who are emotionally available and attuned to all their needs.

There must be a current pregnancy to harness change motivations, a desire on behalf of both parents to co-parent their unborn baby (although they do not have to be in a relationship) and we can work with the families up until the baby reaches the age of two. The significance of this two-year timescale is evidenced in all recent child development research.

Blackpool For Baby’s Sake team consists of highly trained, therapeutic practitioners capable of establishing and maintaining meaningful, trusting relationships that consistently guarantee engagement and crucially provide the framework for the deeper, therapeutic exploration that allows co-parents to understand the impact of their own parenting experiences.

To be part of this exceptional team you must have demonstrable therapeutic skills, sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and adults, infant mental health, and a thorough understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse, attachment, and the impact of unresolved trauma.

You will have the opportunity to support the continued evolution of For Baby’s Sake in Blackpool whilst ensuring fidelity to the programme and sustaining the shared ethos and values of the For Baby’s Sake Trust and Blackpool Council’s Early Help and Support Service

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of our well-established Early Help and Support Service, to deliver a ground breaking evidence based programme and to contribute to the transformation of services for Children and their Families across Blackpool. 

There is a requirement for regular evening and weekend working (for which two additional increments will be paid), with a flexible approach to offering support when families most need it.

This is a secondment opportunity, if you wish to be considered for secondment you will be required to seek permission from your Service Manager in advance of your application.

For further information and to discuss this role, please contact Emma.chapman@blackpool.gov.uk or  Jane.rickerby@blackpool.gov.uk 

to view the Job Description.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The successful applicant will be required to work outside of a 7am to 8pm Monday to Friday work pattern and will receive an additional payment on top of the quoted salary as a result.

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