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This is an opportunity to join an experienced, creative and high performing team in a culturally diverse area with great opportunities for training and development.

We are looking for practitioners who:

• Are enthusiastic about building effective and engaging relationships with young people involved in the Criminal Justice System and improving their life chances
• Are able to effectively supervise young people on intensive Court Orders
• Can work in partnership and forge positive relationships with key agencies, e.g. education, social care and health
• Have the ability to find, research, develop and implement innovative interventions producing reductions in re-offending, risk and safeguarding concerns and encouraging desistance
• Can provide outreach support to engage difficult to reach or vulnerable young people
• Can reinforce the responsibilities of parents and support them in this role.
• Are able to support the reduction in young people entering custody and the effective resettlement of those released

Essential experience:

• Experience of working in a field related to youth offending
• Experience of undertaking risk assessment, planning, delivering and reviewing interventions to address offending behaviour/promote child welfare/meet social need.
• Experience of working within a multi-agency setting and drawing on the strengths of agencies and the contribution they can make to reduce offending behaviour.

Essential qualification(s):

• A relevant professional qualification:

A professional qualification relevant to one of the partner agencies (social services, police, education, youth, probation and health services), for example a Diploma in Social Work, Diploma in Probation Studies, Diploma in Youth and Community Studies or Certificate of Education, or substantial in-service training with evidence of validated learning and achievement.

Ealing council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Ealing follows safer recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults. The post holder will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

This role is deemed customer facing and as such you must have a command of spoken English which is sufficient to enable you to effectively perform the role. This requirement relates to Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016

We currently have one fixed term position for 24 months. We welcome internal and external applicants. Ealing council employees will be offered the opportunity of a secondment. LBE employees must ensure a secondment release form is signed by their line manager before applying and emailed to [email protected] by the application closing date.

This post is subject to Ealing’s enhanced vetting process.