Turnaround Specialist Practitioner

WE ARE NEWHAM

We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. Newham a challenging yet rewarding place to work supporting young people who are involved or at risk of being involved with the Youth Justice System. We are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with, and we are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought.

We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.

£42,492 - £45,123 per annum

Fixed Term 1 year

We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. Newham a challenging yet rewarding place to work supporting young people who are involved or at risk of being involved with the Youth Justice System. We are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with, and we are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought.

We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.

We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our ‘Circles of Support’ practice model. Newham’s Youth Justice aims to prevent crime, and the fear of crime, by ensuring that services are available to support children and young people in the criminal justice system whilst ensuring the needs of victims and our communities are taken into account and that we look to tackle disproportionality wherever we find it.

The Turnaround programme is an early intervention and prevention initiative led by Local Authorities in England and Wales and supported by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) The aim of the programme reduces children entering the Criminal Justice System.

As a Turnaround Specialist Practitioner you will deliver voluntary community based, intensive support to children, young people and families where there is an emerging risk is risk of extra-familial harm or where there is a risk of offending and Anti‑Social Behaviour.

You will assess the needs of children and families as well as planning and delivering, evidence-based support, using a systemically informed practice model.

You will work collaboratively within an inter-disciplinary service to promote children and young people’s educational and emotional development and wellbeing.

You will have knowledge of current practice and service development issues concerning Children and young people who offend and their families.

You will have experience of engaging and supporting vulnerable children, young people and families.

You will be able to produce high-quality evidence-based assessments and have well developed written and oral communication skills.

People are at the heart of everything we do. Our core values are respect, aspiration, empowering culture, integrity, working together. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced practitioner who is willing to work within Newham Youth Justice Service values.

• A commitment to addressing disproportionality wherever we find it.
• We’re an Outstanding local authority focused on reaching excellence.
• We offer genuinely flexible/hybrid…