About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Adolescent Practitioner to join our team at Surrey County Council.
Adolescent Practitioners take a lead role in providing and coordinating consent-based support to children and families in Surrey. They support whole families through a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach, utilising motivational interviewing skills and effective relational approaches
 Key Responsibilities:
Risk Management
- Identify opportunities and risk associated with the service and escalate / report to management.
- Investigate concerns, complaints and safeguarding issues to promote satisfactory and positive outcomes and protect vulnerable members of society.
Service Development
- Contribute towards developing professional policy, standards and prodecure and / or developing and implementing team plans and monitoring and reviewing of services to enhance quality of service.
Planning & Organising
- Undertake care planning and manage complex cases and/or take a lead on development and project work, assisting in development and improvement of services and practice in own area.
- Contribute to service plans and plan staff resources to maintain operational delivery of services.
Finance/Resource Management
- Assist with budget/resource/funding management in accordance with the organisation policies and procedures.
Work with others
- Liaise, communicate and build relationships with other internal departments, partner organisations, agencies and/or contractors on operational issues to share knowledge or best practice and ensure quality, integrated service delivery.
- Work in partnership with service users, their families/carers.
People Management
- Line manage and/or supervise, guide, advise and mentor less experienced or non-professionally qualified staff on casework and provision of care services, making sure that staff act in accordance with procedures and good practice. Assist in the development of staff and in the timely provision of services.
 Requirements:
- Relevant professional qualification and relevant registration where required and experience, or considerable experience of working within the service area.
- Satisfactory DBS clearance may be required.
- Educated to GCSE or A Level standard
- Eligible to work in the UK
 Interested?
For more information on this role or to apply, get in touch with our vendor department who will arrange for a specialist consultant to get in contact with you:
 0203 906 8670