Want to help create brighter futures for families across the East of England?
We employ over 200 talented and passionate people across the East of England who are all committed to creating brighter futures for families that need support.
We offer a wide variety of exciting and challenging jobs, including roles within our community-based programmes and at our central offices in Ipswich and Norwich.
Across the region, there are children and families that need our support. We want to enable these families to be safe, healthy and to build resilience so that they feel in control of their own wellbeing. Our employees and volunteers commit their time and talents to make this happen.
In return, we offer a competitive salary, generous annual leave entitlement, professional development and training opportunities, a pension scheme and life assurance. We are committed to enabling work life balance. Supporting flexible working is one way we do this.
Our commitment to safeguarding children, young people and their families
Ormiston Families is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and families by protecting them from significant abuse, harm and radicalisation.
Children, young people and families accessing Ormiston Families services should be aware that if there is a child protection issue where they (or others) are likely to be at risk of significant harm, employees are under a legal duty to follow safeguarding procedures and cannot offer confidentiality.
You can download Ormiston Families’ safeguarding children, young people and families policy by clicking here.
Current vacancies
Please click the job title of the post you are interested in for more information, contact details and an application pack.
Practitioner – Mpower Fenland
- Salary:
- £21,076 pro rata per annum
- Location:
- Fenland
- Closing date for all applications:
- 28/10/2020
Your new job has just found you!
Ormiston Families – Mpower Fenland
Mpower provides intensive and goal-oriented support to women with highly complex needs whose children have been removed into care. As Practitioner, you will do this by taking a relational approach that centres around the needs of each woman.
Practitioner
Part-time position of 21 hours per week
Starting salary £21,076 pro rata per annum
You will work with a high level of independence and self-direction, managing the subtleties of professional boundaries and confidently using a flexible approach where work with different women can go in a range of directions and last for varying lengths of time.
Ultimately, your work will enable women who have experienced complex trauma to make meaningful change, rebuild their lives, and reduce the number of children being removed into care.
By joining the service, you will be at the forefront of the exciting expansion of Mpower into Cambridgeshire, with the service having been successfully delivered in Suffolk and Norfolk for the last seven years.
It is essential that you are able to travel within the areas and have considerable experience of working intensively with people with highly complex needs and have experience of collaborating on complex safeguarding cases.
For further information and to apply for this role please see the Application Pack and to apply please click ‘Apply Online’.
Closing date: 9am, Wednesday 28th October 2020
Interviews: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Ormiston Families is committed to safeguarding. We are an equal opportunities employer; we value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Employee Privacy Policy
Ormiston Families collects and processes personal data relating to its employees to manage the employment relationship.
Please download and read our Employee Privacy Policy before applying.
Application Pack
Remote Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner – Point 1
- Salary:
- £24,660 pro rata per annum
- Location:
- Homeworking with remote travel
- Closing date for all applications:
- 30/10/2020
Your new job has just found you!
Ormiston Families – Point 1 Service
Ormiston Families Mental Health Service Line are excited to offer the opportunity to apply for qualified Remote Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners to join our team and develop a new pathway for children and young people.
Remote Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner
We are offering part time hours (minimum 15 hours per week) and full-time hours (35 hours per week) with a salary of £24,660 pro rata per annum.
The roles will normally involve working from home with the main office base The Hub, Prince of Wales Road, Norwich. As the role provides a remote service minimal travel to Norwich will be needed.
It is anticipated that these posts will be predominantly supporting children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
The Norfolk & Waveney CYP mental health system is committed to recruiting and investing in high quality candidates for these posts. We are seeking candidates who are dedicated and enthusiastic about improving services for children and young people
For further information and to apply for this role please see the Application Pack and to apply please click ‘Apply Online’.
Closing date for all applications is 9am, Friday 30th October 2020
Interviews will be held Friday 6th November 2020
Ormiston Families is committed to safeguarding. We are an equal opportunities employer; we value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Employee Privacy Policy
Ormiston Families collects and processes personal data relating to its employees to manage the employment relationship.
Please download and read our Employee Privacy Policy before applying.
Application Pack
Trainee Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner – Point 1
- Salary:
- £21,695 per annum
- Location:
- Based predominantly at the Norwich Hub or Waveney (Lowestoft)
- Closing date for all applications:
- 25/10/2020
Your new job has just found you!
Ormiston Families – Point 1 Service
This is an exciting opportunity to join Point 1 following the successful bid between Ormiston Families and NSFT to establish a new team of Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP’s).
Trainee Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner
Full time position, 35 hours per week
Starting salary £21,695 per annum
Based predominantly at the Norwich Hub or Waveney (Lowestoft) and in the community around Norfolk and Waveney
Ormiston Families Mental Health Service Line are excited to offer the opportunity to apply for one of 6 x HEE/NHSE funded Trainee Children Wellbeing Practitioner positions. We welcome you to apply to undertake a Post Graduate Certificate level training in Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice.
Further information can be found here:
https://www.annafreud.org/mental-health-professionals/cyp-mh-workforce-development-1/
It is anticipated that these posts will be predominantly based in our Central (Norwich) or Waveney (Lowestoft) teams supporting children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. You will be allocated a base for training purposes but may be expected to work across services covering Norfolk & Waveney. While training you will be on £21,695 which upon successful completion of training will increase to £24,907.
Please note that while undertaking training (1 year full-time) it is anticipated that you will attend teaching days at least twice a week (most of which are being planned for virtual delivery, subject to change under COVID restrictions) with the University and the remaining time will be used for supervision, study and therapeutic clinical work.
Successful candidates must be in a position to commence employment at the start of January. As these are post-graduate courses you will need to evidence your ability to study at post graduate level. Normally a minimum of a second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology). You will also be expected to demonstrate experience working clinically in the field of mental health, preferably with children and young people.
The Norfolk & Waveney CYP mental health system is committed to recruiting and investing in high quality candidates for these posts. We are seeking candidates who are dedicated and enthusiastic about improving services for children and young people. As such, across the system, we are committed to permanently funding these posts in addition to current capacity. For successful candidates, following your training year and upon completion we aim to ensure that your new skills are suitably deployed across the system and our organisations. Please note that this may be across the Norfolk and Waveney area.
As these posts fully fund the one year training and salary costs it is important to us as a system that we sustain successful applicants. As such, successful candidates are expected to remain in their posts for at least one year post completion in order to maximise the benefit of this training for local children and young people. Successful applicants will be asked to sign a training agreement.
For further information and to apply for this role please see the Application Pack and to apply please click ‘Apply Online’.
Closing date for all applications is 25th October 2020
Interviews will be held week commencing 26th October 2020
Why work for us – Esther from our Point 1 Service talks about her experience
Ormiston Families is committed to safeguarding. We are an equal opportunities employer; we value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Please note, you need to apply to the organisation (Ormiston Families) for these posts IN ADDITION to the University at the application stage. This is so we can shortlist together with the University ensuring applicants meet their requirements for study.
It is essential that you click on link below and complete the application process set out by UCL along with the Ormiston application for your application to be considered. Please find the link below which sets out the UCL application process:
Employee Privacy Policy
Ormiston Families collects and processes personal data relating to its employees to manage the employment relationship.
Please download and read our Employee Privacy Policy before applying.