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Therapeutic Family Practitioner

The Bridge School Sedgemoor, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 5HT

This job expired on 6 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  6 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,488.00 - £22,855.00 Annually (Actual) Pay award pending

Therapeutic Family Practitioner job summary

The Bridge School is seeking to appoint a Therapeutic Family Practitioner on a permanent contract to start in September 2025.

24 hours per week, All year round
(3 Days a week) working hours to be confirmed
Grade and salary: Grade 11 £20,488- £22,855 Dependent on experience and qualifications (pay award pending)

The Bridge School, Sedgemoor is one of four Pupil Referral Units commissioned by Somerset Council and local schools. We provide services through a number of centres for students with a range of social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. All students are referred through their mainstream schools in the Sedgemoor area.

The Bridge School, Sedgemoor is the Pupil Referral Unit for mainstream schools in Sedgemoor, we support a number of students across the age range from 4 - 16 years where they are at risk or have been permanently excluded from mainstream schools. We are looking for dynamic, positive, creative and resilient practitioners who can support children and young people across the school.

We are looking for a Therapeutic Family Practitioner to provide trauma-informed therapeutic support to children, young people, and families through 1:1 and group interventions. Build strong relationships, act as a link between home and school, and support families facing complex challenges. Use creative therapeutic tools, contribute to safeguarding and multi-agency planning, and help lead and develop wider family support services across the partnership.

You will be expected to demonstrate:

• Substantial experience working with children, young people, and families.
• Relevant qualifications in counselling, social work, or therapeutic interventions.
• A deep understanding of trauma, attachment, and child development.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships.
• Confidence in lone working, problem solving, and making decisions in the best interest of children.
• Good literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills.

We can offer ongoing CPD opportunities, promotional pathways, and a very supportive and skilled team. The Bridge works as part of a wider team within a formal partnership with both Polden Bower and Avalon Schools.

If you feel you have what it takes to work with us to achieve the very best for our students and their families, we would very much like to hear from you.

Enquiries are welcomed – please call Jo Stamford on 01278 496386 for further information or email HR@poldenbower.org.uk.

The Bridge School Sedgemoor is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This appointment will be subject to enhanced DBS disclosure, medical clearance, proof of the right to work in the UK, and satisfactory references.

Following the acceptance of your interview, an online check will be carried out in line with the latest Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About The Bridge School Sedgemoor

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 59 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Bridge School Sedgemoor website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-bridge-school-sedgemoor

The Bridge School, Sedgemoor is one of four Pupil Referral Units commissioned by Somerset County Council and Somerset schools. We provide services through a number of centres for students who have a range of social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. All students are referred through their mainstream schools in the Sedgemoor area.

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