Youth And Family Practitioner

Are you a confident experienced professional who is keen to deliver sustainable support to children, young people and families whilst developing exceptional practice in a supportive, dynamic, and creative environment? If so, we want to hear from you.

Royal Greenwich Family and Adolescent Support Service (FaASS) is an exciting place to work.

We are looking for a fixed term (12 months) Youth and Family Practitioner to offer a high quality, effective and responsive service for children, young people and families with multiple needs. The key goal of helping them to build resilience and achieve and sustain improved outcomes.

The Youth and Family Practitioner Role (insert job reference) will be a highly skilled and experienced practitioner and be able to work in a systemic model, collaboratively with families, taking responsibility and reflecting on practice with colleagues. You will have the ability to build and sustain relationships with children, young people, parents/carers, families, and other professionals and will be able to reflect, challenge and change and/or test your hypothesis in the face of conflicting evidence.

The Family and Adolescent Support Service promotes an organisational learning culture and strives to find innovative ways of engaging and facilitating change with children, young people, and their families. Our service seeks to actively contribute to organisational learning through recognising, promoting, and supporting best practice and service development where required, retaining a clear focus upon positive good outcomes for children, young people, and families across the borough.

If you feel you have the necessary background, experience, and skills to undertake any of these roles we would like to hear from you. Please include a supporting statement with your application, addressing how your skills, knowledge and experience would enable you to meet all essential criteria, as indicated in the job description and person specification.

Please note that this role will require you to work anywhere within the Borough of Greenwich including in family homes, Schools, Children's Centres, or other community settings and some out of hour’s work is also expected.

This role is a fixed term contract for a period of 12 months

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Clare Cordrey; Clare.Cordrey@royalgreenwich.gov.uk 0208 921 2831

Safer recruitment: Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

DBS: This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974).

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

Internal to External: This opportunity has recently been advertised as an opportunity for current RBG employees (internal only advertising). Applications received during the internal advertising period have been considered and processed. If you were interviewed for this position via an application to this job advertisement during the internal advertising period, any further application will not be shortlisted.

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.