Location
Multiple locations – primarily in Southwark Best Start Family Hubs.

Hours
36 hours per week.

Salary
£50,175 - £57,495 per annum (Grade 11) plus a 10% Registered Mental Health Professional payment supplement subject to annual review and continuation.

About the Role
Southwark Council is seeking a dedicated Clinical Practitioner to join our Healthy Minds Thrive Team, an early intervention therapeutic service focused on strengthening parent-infant relationships and improving parental and infant mental health and wellbeing. Working within a supportive and friendly clinical services team, you will deliver assessments, therapeutic interventions, and clinical consultations to families with children aged 0-2. Embedded across Best Start Family Hubs and Early Help services, this role offers the chance to provide impactful mental health support where it is needed most.

Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering specialist clinical assessments and evidence-based interventions for infants and families with mild to moderate needs.
- Supporting parent and infant mental health and parent-infant relationships through one-to-one and group-based work.
- Providing consultation and training to a wide range of professionals across Best Start Family Hubs, Early Help, and Social Care.
- Promoting safeguarding practices and working collaboratively with key partners, including the NHS.
- Working flexibly across home visits, community, and Family Hub settings to ensure accessible support.

You will be part of an ambitious and forward-thinking team that places families at the centre of everything we do. This is a great opportunity to influence the future of early intervention in Southwark and ensure every child gets the best start in life.

Experience
Direct experience providing evidence-based therapeutic support to adults and/or parent-infant dyads is essential.

About you
You are a clinically skilled and compassionate practitioner who thrives in multi-agency environments and is motivated by strengths-based, early intervention work with families. You demonstrate sound knowledge of early childhood development, attachment theory, systemic approaches, and family dynamics. You are committed to trauma-informed, anti-discriminatory, and inclusive clinical practice and show confidence in working collaboratively with professionals from a range of backgrounds to support positive change.

Qualifications
You hold a recognised therapeutic qualification and are registered with a relevant body (e.g., UKCP, BACP, BABCP, NMC, or HCPC). This position requires Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance at Enhanced - Adults and Children (Barred) level.