The salary range for an Adolescent Practitioner is?£32,512 - £34,654 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.
We have opportunities available in the following locations:
- East-covering Mole Valley (x2)- these positions are offered as 12 month fixed term contract or secondment opportunities
- East- covering Tandridge
- West- covering Waverley, Guildford, Woking and Surrey Heath (x5)
- North- covering Runnymede and Spelthorne (x2)
- Central Intervention Support- based in Redhill (x1)
- Central Risk and Intelligence- based in Weybridge (x1)
Rewards and Benefits
- 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
- Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
- Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
- Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
- A generous local government salary related pension
- Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
- 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
- Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
About us:
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a brand-new Adolescent Service that has been created in Surrey, bringing together a range services for young people including those who go missing, are involved in gang culture and are vulnerable to exploitation, including criminal and sexual exploitation. Our team includes Social Workers and Adolescent Practitioners who are focussed on achieving positive outcomes for young people.
About our Adolescent Practitioner roles:
The Adolescent Service is built on the belief that relationships are the key vehicle for achieving change. The service is underpinned by 'Relational Practice' principles, an intentional way of working where establishing, attending to, and maintaining empathetic and honest interpersonal relationships are prioritised.
This approach includes our relationships and how we work with each other. Adopting this approach supports us to create systems that can be trauma-informed and respond appropriately to individuals' different needs and experiences. It supports everyone's ability to work restoratively to resolve conflict, repair harm and support change.
All roles hold relational and restorative practice at their core; and roles in our Regional Hubs will practice across the broad range of adolescent needs, working in close partnership with social workers, other partner agencies and the voluntary sector to provide flexible, seamless access to frontline expertise.
Our Central Hub roles will focus on slightly more specialised areas of work, centred around exposure to extra-familial harm. Our Risk and Intelligence team will lead on the mapping and understanding of networks and concerns around exploitation and modern slavery and human trafficking, whilst our Intervention Support team are our contextual intervention specialists, working to understand and intervene with the contexts where children experience or are at risk of experiencing harm.
Adolescent Practitioners in our Central Hub Teams:
- Deliver focused, specialised intervention, crisis response, context-based assessment and plans.
- Build data and intelligence and support with mapping, Work closely with the Edge of Care service.
- Develop expertise and knowledge across the practice system,
- Consult and support on work to help across the whole practice system (from Assessment to Leaving Care), working directly with children, families, and other providers as required.
- Ensure that case notes are adequately recorded as per the team policy and procedures, including timely and accurate case notes, assessments and reports
Adolescent Practitioners in our Regional Hub Teams:
- Support whole families through a strengths-based and trauma informed approach, utilising motivational interviewing skills and effective relational approaches.
- Coordinate key support services and professionals with families, to form an engaged, active and effective Team Around the Family with clearly defined roles and expectations as per the family plan.
- Ensure casework is adequately recorded as per the team policy and procedures, including timely and accurate case notes, assessments and reports.
- Are the lead practitioner for a caseload of families, maintaining positive contact and effectively managing the balance of providing hands-on support and coordinating relevant partners, as per a shared family plan, to keep them safe from harm.
Shortlisting criteria:
To be considered for shortlisting for this position, you application will clearly evidence the following:
- Your awareness and understanding of the roles and responsibilities of practitioners working with vulnerable children and young people with experience of working in a social work, youth justice, youth work, teaching, or probation environment;
- Your appreciation of best practice approaches when supporting children and young people
- Your basic awareness of relevant legislation affecting working with children, including the Children Act (1989) and the Children and Adoption Act (2002)
- Your IT skills, including use of databases, email, Word and Excel
Surrey has both urban and rural areas and you will be expected to have a valid driving licence to drive in the UK, access to a vehicle and be willing to travel to your contractual base and across a wide geographical area. Reasonable adjustments where needed will be made for successful applicants who have a disability or long-term health condition to enable them to fulfil the requirements of the job.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 05/09/2024 with interviews planned for W/C 16/09/2024.
An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role.