Extended Adolescent Worker (Adolescent Services)
Job introduction
Are you a creative and motivated person looking to build meaningful relationships with young people within a well-established and skilled team?
We are looking for someone who has experience in working with exploited and missing young people.
Are you looking for a rewarding, varied role where each day can offer diversity, challenge and success?
For an informal discussion, please contact Leon.Maxwell@brighton-hove.gov.uk 0754-2322248
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Extended Adolescent Service, within Brighton & Hove’s Specialist Adolescent Service.
The Extended Adolescent Service works with young people 11-18 who are at risk of CSE, CCE and becoming looked after. This post will carry a mixed case load including working with young people who are being, or are at high risk of being, criminally/ sexually exploited and who go Missing.
Many of the young people we work with have experienced developmental trauma and disrupted attachments, the development of a secure trusting relationship is a key aspect of our work. Work is mainly done with individual young people but can also involve work with siblings and families. Each intervention is designed to match to the young person’s specific needs, so the work is varied and creative. We provide a flexible needs lead, assertive outreach service which means some out of hours working and the provision of a limited on-call duty rota at weekends.
As part of the Families, Children & Learning directorate, we support a relationship based and whole family approach to the work, whilst respecting service-user confidentiality. We work closely with partner agencies, most notably Social Work, Youth Offending, Functional Family Therapy, Well-being Services and Schools, to identify and meet children & young people's needs.
We are looking for someone who has experience in working with exploited young people. The post holder will have experience and knowledge of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures. They will be confident in assessing need and planning work with young people
The post holder will be part of a close team but will also need to be able to work independently. There is good individual and group supervision and the post holder will have access to the council's comprehensive learning and development offer.
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As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
Work Permits: We may be able to obtain a Work Permit for this post but this is subject to meeting the requirements of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Please see Gov.uk for more information on the Skilled Worker Visa.
Part office / part home – hybrid - We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.
Working arrangements are subject to Government guidance at the time. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)
Company information
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.