Youth Practitioner
Haringey
£25.52/hr
Full time: 35/hrs a week
Start date: ASAP

AKTON Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for a Youth Practitioner / Youth Targeted Support in the Haringey area. 3 - 6 months contract.

Role Purpose

Utilising a strengths-based approach in line with the Supporting Families criteria, the role will ensure a multi-agency response and the coordination of effective interventions whilst maintaining a focus on safeguarding, protection and wellbeing of young people and their families.
Hold a caseload of 10 young people and families with a contextual safeguarding emphasis but in a whole family approach
Deliver parenting programmes as part of the under early help and prevention agenda, supporting the whole family agenda.
To work in partnership with emerging Family Hub and Locality work
1.Undertake regular, purposeful home and community visits to inform assessments, planning monitoring young people and their families.

2.To act as case holder and lead professional for young people and families in accordance with the appropriate level of complexities, threshold and criteria undertaking assessment, planning and reviews as the lead professional

3.Assess, plan and review within agreed timescales to ensure high quality interventions for young people and families assessing the service.

4. Support the wider early help and parenting agenda by delivering accredited parenting programmes as agreed by service managers.

5.Role model behaviour to young people and families displaying clear, personal and professional boundaries.

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Extensive knowledge of safeguarding, contextual safeguarding, serious youth violence and associated risks
Knowledge of early help systems, community safety and supporting families framework
Knowledge of adolescent development
Experience

Experience of working with young people and families from diverse cultures and backgrounds
Experience of case management and meeting deadlines
Experience of working as part of a wider prevention offer with partners from the statutory and voluntary sectors