Adolescent Support Team Practitioner

**Salary**

£38,934 - £40,755 per annum.

**Package**

Fixed-term/Secondment until 26th February 2027, Full - Time, 36 hours per week.

**Date posted**

24/02/2025

**Job reference**

R0006846

**About us at Hounslow**

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

**About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

**Our Benefits**

**If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.**

**About The Role**

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Early Help and Prevention (EHaP) team, as an Adolescent Support Team practitioner. In this role, you’ll be primarily working with adolescent’s and families to address multiple and complex needs, improving family functioning and resilience, and reducing the need for statutory interventions.

You will be working with young people between 10 and 17 years old who are at risk of experiencing extra familial harm, on the edge of care (LAC prevention) and other complex issues such as school refusals, behaviour issues and family breakdowns. In addition, you will lead on facilitating our parenting programmes and developing our group work.

There will be opportunities to be trained in evidence-based parenting programmes and to develop your skills in providing group work.

**About The Team You’ll Be Working In**

The team is a dynamic, fast-paced and creative team that works with families and young people from the point of referral, where there may be intra-familial, extra-familial and contextual risks. The team works with young people at risk of homelessness or the edge of care to build & sustain positive relationships within families, in order to maintain stability for young people.
- The Early Help and Prevention team is looking for a practitioner who has experience working with adolescents and/or children and their families, who wants the opportunity to develop their skills in supporting children and their families to achieve good outcomes.
- As well as excellent support from colleagues, you will receive reflective supervision and have the opportunity for career progression through our Social Work programmes.

**About You**
- You are experienced in working with children and young people and their parents/carers and can build strong relationships.
- You are well organised and have good time management skills.
- You have experience of working collaboratively with other professionals / agencies.
- You can write notes and reports which are analytical when required.
- You can be creative and innovative in your work.

**Essential for the Role**

Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.

**Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile**

**When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact**

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
**Telephone: 02085832818**

**Interviews will be held during week commencing 24th March 2025.