Senior Practitioner - Children's Services - Thriving Communities

Overview

Senior Practitioner Thriving Communities

Service: RESET Adolescent Safeguarding

Newham London Borough Council is pleased to invite applications for the post of Senior Practitioner within Thriving Communities. This is an exciting time to join the service as an integrated multi-disciplinary service delivering a whole family approach and supporting some of Newham London Borough Council's most vulnerable children and their families impacted by exploitation and extra-familial harm, children/young people on the edge of care, and those at risk of/impacted by offending. This role offers the opportunity to work in a trauma-informed way with children and young people within a service based on systemic principles. Newham London Borough Council can offer you training in Newham London Borough Council's relational model and support to develop systemic practice. Newham London Borough Council have a wide training offer including safeguarding and systemic training, and you will be working within a service where learning and practice development are held in high priority and are supported by a permanent management team.

About the Job

This is an exciting and demanding opportunity to support practice and delivery within high-functioning teams of youth practitioners, voluntary community partners, and education practitioners who are working across the education, youth justice, adolescent safeguarding, and community sectors. The post holder will contribute significantly to the evidence base for existing and new programmes and ensure the successful recruitment, retention, and support for young people through various pathways.

The successful candidate will drive and improve outcomes for individual children and young people accessing support through close collaboration with community partners, Children's Social Care, and school teams to ensure the roll-out of quality resilience-building programs and multi-agency offers that result in:

• Improvements in school attendance and reductions in suspensions and permanent exclusions, building on Newham London Borough Council's approach to school inclusion.
• Improvements in the emotional well-being of those children/young people accessing support.
• Reduction in first-time entrants to youth justice and the numbers of children/young people becoming ‘looked after’ as a result of more focused and targeted ‘early intervention’ support.

About You

Newham London Borough Council is looking for candidates who have strong practice development skills with demonstrable experience of delivering high-quality interventions to children and their families, and experience of supporting practitioners to implement and embed excellent practice. You will have experience of working within systemic principles and awareness of trauma-informed approaches.

You will possess a sound understanding of youth safety interventions along with significant knowledge of current issues affecting children, young people, and their families, including significant knowledge of risk outside of the home and current research and practice in this area.

You will have experience of developing strong working relationships with partners in the voluntary, community, and faith sectors, education, health, youth provision, early help, and children’s services, and have experience of intervention development and delivering support and interventions directly with young people. Excellent communication skills are critical, and you will have demonstrable experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings and delivering and developing training for multi-disciplinary audiences. Finally, the successful candidate will have some demonstrable experience of using IT recording systems and data to monitor team activity, support quality assurance, and drive service improvement.

The London Borough of Newham is committed to creating an inclusive, anti-racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity, or sexual orientation. If you share Newham London Borough Council's vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills Newham London Borough Council need, that’s all that matters to Newham London Borough Council.