Young People's Practitioner

at  Southampton City Council

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Enhanced DBS will be required

JOB REFERENCE

15145
Job Description and Person Specification

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Young Person’s Practitioner (YPP) to join us in our Young People’s Service and work alongside other YPP’s in our multi-agency teams of Social Workers, Youth Workers, Police Officers, Youth Justice Workers and Substance Misuse Workers. You will manage a caseload of young people , complete assessments and plans and , regularly chair Multi Agency Team around the Child meetings / Child in Need meetings to coordinate and review the support.
Our Young People’s Service is committed to supporting young people who are impacted by contextual safeguarding concerns including peer to peer violence and criminality, who are suffering or at risk of suffering significant harm because of exploitation, challenges around school attendance & participation and, enabling families to live together where there is a real risk of family breakdown.
In Southampton, this area of work has high levels of demand and the City’s young people need special people to help them overcome these challenges of family conflict, exploitation, peer on peer violence, social exclusion and, support with early crime prevention.
Our young people need workers who are quick to find solutions to complex challenges. Our young people want workers who can form trusted adult worker relationships with them and are constant figures for them through the good and difficult times. As a YPP in the Young People’s Service you will be great at balancing and prioritising competing demands and deliver a high quality trauma informed response to young people experiencing a range of adolescent issues. We need people who are calm, empathetic, solution focused, quick thinking and positive. We are looking for workers who can give young people and families high support , hope and aspiration.
About you:
Are you this inspirational and motivational YPP?
The Southampton family are systemic and will train you in systemic practice. We are proud of our practice development offer; it is one of the best in the country. Like the best families we are supportive, restorative, and flexible and we encourage positive and supportive relationships within the workforce.
If you feel you have the necessary background, experience, and skills to undertake this role we would like to hear from you.
What we can offer you:

Here at SCC we have a range of different perks and benefits, a few examples can be found below.

• A generous local government pension scheme.
• Flexible working (role dependant). Up to 13 days of Flexi Leave.
• Hybrid working arrangements (role dependant).
• 25 days annual leave (pro rata), plus bank holidays.
• Online Benefits – salary sacrifice schemes, benefits and discounts.
• Great local transport links.
• Employee assistance programme with access to our health wellbeing and support.

For further information on our benefits package please visit: Employee benefits (southampton.gov.uk)