Practice Supervisor

This exciting and innovative service provides child-centred, outcome-focused support for children and young people, from birth to and up to 25 years old with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), residing in safe accommodation because of domestic abuse.

Within this role, you will work to ensure that the service receives appropriate referrals, they are allocated promptly and support to children, young people and their families, is effective.

You will provide line management, guidance and support to identified team members.

The postholder will have a degree level qualification in a related area, experience of providing services for children and young people who have experienced trauma and experience of managing or supervising team members.

Principal Accountabilities

To contribute to the effective delivery and quality assurance of a high-quality service

To ensure the service is compliant with, or exceeds, contractual requirements
To provide line management, guidance and support to DA SASS team members
To promote the service to ensure it reaches as many children and young people as possible and enhances the reputation of the organisation
To support the team in ensuring that children, young people and their families are effectively safeguarded
To establish and maintain effective multi-agency links with key partners to support the effective delivery of this service
Keep clear accurate records and provide the required monitoring and evaluation information and any other progress reports required by due dates.
Attend supervision with for quality assurance and personal development purposes.
Consider own training needs, keeping up to date with relevant good practice, and sharing this with team members.
Any other duties which may reasonably be required by the Salus Management Team.

This Job Description does not provide an exhaustive list of duties and may be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder considering service development.

Contact

For more information, please contact Sally Williamson on 07725 595722 or Emma Mead on 07725 629789

Types: 22.2hrs per week (Full-time arrangements may be available when paired with another role in the service)
Pay: £31,000.00 per year (pro-rata for 0.6fte)

Benefits:

Cycle to work scheme
Company pension
Sick pay

Responsible to: Head of Service

Work Location: In person

Person Specification

The person specification is a picture of skills, knowledge and experience required to carry out the job. It has been used to draw up the advert and will also be used in the short-listing and interview process for this post.

You should demonstrate on your application form how you meet the following essential criteria

	Essential	Desired
QUALIFICATIONS	Professional qualification (or academic equivalent) in related area e.g. Youth work, teaching, counselling (or equivalent), social work etc	Relevant qualification or evidence of training in any of the following: •Management/coaching •Domestic Abuse •Healthy Relationships •Solution Focused Practice •Mentoring
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES	Experience of providing services to children and young who have experienced trauma Experience of managing/supervising or coaching other staff members Experience of working effectively with partners A good understanding of agencies and support available for families in Kent Strong organisational ability including ability to plan workload and manage own time effectively A high level of written and verbal presentation skills and ICT skills Skilled in ensuring the voice of the child is central to the service	Experience of providing services to children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse
KNOWLEDGE	Knowledge of the impact of trauma, including domestic abuse, on children and young people Knowledge of the impact of this work on team members A thorough understanding of Safeguarding and Data Protection legislation	Knowledge of strengths based approaches
ATTRIBUTES	An ability to remain calm whilst working under pressure and within tight timescales on sensitive and confidential issues To be creative and proactive, able to use initiative and make sound judgements An ability to deal with a number of tasks at once and to be flexible with work routines An ability to actively engage children, young people and families through a variety of methods A positive outlook and a result focused approach To work effectively as part of a team

Further information

Closing date: 9am on 19th December 2025

Interview date: (tbc)

Any appointment will be made subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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