Family Assessment Practitioner (Core) Salary : £30,000 per annum Service: Residential Family Assessment Centre (Banstead) Reports to: Senior Practitioner / Lead Practitioner / Deputy Manager

Role Purpose The Assessment Practitioner (Core) plays a central and skilled role within the organisations therapeutic residential family centre. This post holder contributes directly to structured parenting and capacity-to-change assessments, ensuring that assessment activity is consistent, robust, and reflective of the organisations trauma-informed and evidence-based approach.

The role requires confident professional judgement, the ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, and responsibility for the safe and effective running of shifts when required. Assessment Practitioners are expected to understand how daily practice, observation, and recording directly inform formal assessment outcomes and decision-making for families.

This role supports the organisations commitment to safeguarding babies, strengthening early attachment, and providing clear, balanced, and defensible assessment evidence to inform multi-agency decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Assessment and Therapeutic Practice Contribute directly to structured parenting, interaction, and capacity-to-change assessments in line w...