Practitioner

Are you looking for a rewarding role as a skilled and experienced professional practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary, innovative and friendly team who are committed to keeping children safe from sexual harm?

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a UK-wide charity that exists to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. We’re bold, we’re pioneering, we’re growing and we want your help.

We’re here for everyone who needs us. We protect children by working with people who pose a risk and diverting them from causing harm. We support individuals and families who have been affected by abuse. And we help professionals who work with families to create safer environments for children.

We run the confidential Stop It Now helpline and Shore, a website for teenagers.

We use data and insight, alongside decades of experience, to develop innovative strategies and interventions to make prevention a reality.

We engage with policy and decision makers to advocate for a public health approach to child sexual abuse.

We bring our understanding and knowledge of what keeps children safe to the widest possible audience.

Our values help guide our actions and help ensure we achieve our purpose: we act with integrity, we are collaborative, we are innovative, we are ambitious and we have hope.

Our dedicated and expert staff are based around the UK with offices in Bromsgrove, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Epsom.

About you and the role

You will carry out assessments and interventions for local authorities in cases where sexual abuse is known or suspected, provide advice to our Stop It Now helpline and deliver training to other professionals as well as contributing to wider service developments within the charity.

Our practitioners use their experience and expert knowledge in working with individuals who have been convicted or accused of sexual abuse toward children and protective adults where there have been concerns about child sexual abuse. You will be able to demonstrate confidence in translating the charity’s mission into direct child protection practice and equipping other professionals in tackling child sexual abuse through training and consultancy.

Please note the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check for this position.

Location: Epsom, Surrey or Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (with hybrid working available)

Why Lucy Faithfull Foundation? We’ll offer you…

• An opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of children who have the right to live free from sexual abuse and exploitation
• Access to continuous professional development
• A competitive salary and access to a pension scheme
• Access to a hybrid working scheme with a minimum of 2 days in the office
• Full time staff receive 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 30 days following 5 years’ service)
• A dedicated employee assistance programme
• Access to Benenden medical cover and employee discounts
• Free eye tests and employee discount savings