Adolescent Practitioner - Youth Homelessness

Details

• Reference: SCC/TP/288915/4448
• Positions: 1
• Category: Care - Children and Young People
• Contract type: Permanent
• Working hours: 36 hours per week
• Posted on: 21 January 2026
• Closing date: 18 February 2026

The starting salary for this position is £33,552 based on working 36 hours per week.

This role is open to hybrid working and as a team we split our time between working from home, visiting young people across the county, and collaborating in the office. The contractual base for this role is Focus Youth Centre in Epsom.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Adolescent Practitioner to join the Adolescent Service in Surrey, which brings together a range of services for young people including those who are experiencing homelessness, those who go missing, and those who experience extra-familial harm.

Our Offer to You

• 26 days' holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
• Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping
• A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents

About the Role

The Central Hub Youth Homelessness provision offers support to young people across the county who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness. A key part of your role as an Adolescent Practitioner will be to support a child and family with situations which have led to, or have contributed to, increased risk of homelessness or precarious housing circumstances. You will work with and support Social Workers and Adolescent Practitioners in responding quickly, effectively and with the requisite skills and capability to best support children in these circumstances.

You will play an important role in supporting and maintaining excellent relationships with housing colleagues in the districts and boroughs in Surrey and will ensure our responses to youth homelessness are collaborative and inclusive.

The Adolescent Service is built on the belief that relationships are the key vehicle for achieving change. The service is underpinned by 'Relational Practice' principles, an intentional way of working where establishing, attending to, and maintaining empathetic and honest interpersonal relationships are prioritised. This approach includes our relationships and how we work with each other. Adopting this approach supports us to create systems that can be trauma-informed and respond appropriately to individuals' different needs and experiences.

It supports everyone's ability to work restoratively to resolve conflict, repair harm and support change.

As a Youth Homelessness Adolescent Practitioner in our Central Adolescent Service you will:

• Provide support to both Surrey County Council and District and Borough colleagues where 16/17 year olds present as homeless / risk of homeless or are precariously housed
• Provide support through short term interventions
• Work with internal and external partners to ensure effective support is in place for young people who present as homeless or with risks of homelessness and to understand any wider contextual concerns
• Ensure policy and procedures are adhered to, are timely and accurate and record accurate case notes describing your work and the impact it has had
• Support Youth Homelessness Lead in ensuring the county wide programme of learning and development around homelessness and housing legislation reaches all parts of the practice system affecting adolescents
• Support whole families through a strengths-based and trauma informed approach, utilising motivational interviewing skills and effective relational approaches

In order to be considered for shortlisting, your CV and personal statement will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours :

• An understanding of the roles and responsibilities of practitioners working with vulnerable children and young people with…