Specialist Intervention Practitioner

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Colonnades House

02/11/2025

Specialist Intervention Practitioner (CDC)

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Salary

Grade 7, £28,132 - £30,914 - depending upon experience. Plus 6% on call allowance

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Region

Doncaster

Job category/type

Childrens Social Work

Date posted

17/10/2025

Job reference

REQ21195

Job description

Based: Colonnades House, Duke Street, Doncaster

Salary: Grade 7, £28,132 - £30,914 - depending upon experience. Plus 6% on call allowance

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week

Closing date: 2nd November 2025

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to these posts

These is an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified professional to join us with experience of working with young people and their families impacted upon by exploitation.

Where Child Exploitation has been identified as a safeguarding issue, the successful applicant will work as a team to provide a borough wide intervention. The intervention will be a therapeutic, solution focused service for children, young people and their families. Working the whole family approach to implement contextual safeguarding principles. As a passionate individual the focus will be required for you to be tenacious, to get individuals at risk of being exploited engaged using various opportunities. There is also a specific focus on early intervention and those regularly missing from home.

You will need to understand the impact of exploitation on young people and an understanding of the 'contextual safeguarding' agenda and an ability to undertake direct work and deliver targeted, therapeutic interventions both individually and in a family setting.

As a Specialist Intervention Practitioner, you will need to demonstrate skills and experience in developing effective relationships with young people and their families that promote and deliver safety and sustainable change for families. An ability to undertake assessments and create effective therapeutic intervention plans and monitor your work with young people and their families is essential.

Being part of the team will require you to raise awareness of exploitation delivered through safeguarding practices. Collaborative working will ensure there is effective partnership working that requires effective communication skills.

The Child Exploitation team provide a borough wide response to children, young people and their families when issues of child exploitation have been identified through the Multi Agency Child Exploitation (MACE) process. This includes all forms of exploitation considering those who are at risk of being exploited through trafficking, Child Criminal Exploitation and Child Sexual Exploitation. As a Specialist Intervention Practitioner early intervention and prevention will be a key focus within daily practice.

The team take a 'contextual safeguarding' approach to the work, working therapeutically and in a trauma informed way with the whole family to build "safety" for young people and reducing the need to become looked after or escalate through the social care system. Relationship based practice is at the core of our model of delivery.

The team will also provide an on-call weekend support offer as part of Children's Service out of hour's response, which you are required to be part of.

In return for your hard work and dedication, we can offer you the chance to be part of a great team dedicated to ensuring that all people in Doncaster thrive. You will also have access to a variety of attractive employee benefits including competitive leave entitlement, a generous local government pension scheme, a wide range of well-being support and development opportunities. You will also have access to a range of staff discount and benefits schemes. More information on the benefits available to you as a City of Doncaster Council employee can be found in the attached benefits book.

Please ensure you view the job summary and job profile as you will need to demonstrate in your application form how you meet the required criteria.

Shortlisting and Interview date to be confirmed.

If you are interested, simply apply online. If you would like to chat to someone first, please get in touch with Emma Brooke – CE Operational Manager. Tel: or email:

If you require support with completing the application or with interview skills in general, please contact the Advance team via email or visit their website for further details.

This post involves working with children/ adults and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a Disclosure and Barring Service check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at

Doncaster Council is committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community where we strive to improve the quality of life for all. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share these commitments.

City of Doncaster Council is a disability confident employer committed to a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job, are flexible when assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate they can do the job and make reasonable adjustments as required.

Confirmation of appointment will be subject to a medical assessment.

Specialist Intervention Practitioner (CDC)