Community Practitioner

This role is central to that commitment.

This specialist position involves working directly with children and young people affected by domestic abuse. We’re looking for practitioners who can clearly demonstrate an understanding of how domestic abuse impacts children, emotionally, relationally, developmentally, and neurologically.

If you have direct experience supporting children affected by domestic abuse, we encourage you to evidence that depth of understanding in your application.

If your experience is in related fields, please take time to explain how your skills are transferable, and how you understand the ways prolonged exposure to domestic abuse can shape behaviour, attachment patterns, emotional regulation, and brain development.

At EdShift, Community Practitioners hold complex material while also creating spaces of creativity, play, and connection. The work is both joyful and demanding. It requires emotional reciprocity, clear boundaries, and a deep respect for the lived experiences of the children and young people we support.

Our practitioners often arrive with a “Mary Poppins bag” of creative resources,  clay, sand, art materials, small objects of curiosity, using imagination and relational practice to help children feel safe enough to explore, express, and begin to make sense of their experiences.

We offer strong supervision and reflective structures to support safe, ethical, and sustainable practice.