Youth Practitioner, Targeted Support Team

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO1
Salary: £38,934 – £40,755 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 1st June 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 9th June 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The role involves applying a strengths-based approach aligned with the Supporting Families criteria. The main responsibilities include coordinating interventions from various agencies, prioritizing safeguarding, and promoting the well-being of both young individuals and their families. The role includes managing a caseload of 10 young people and families, focusing on contextual safeguarding within a holistic family framework. This involves providing parenting programs as part of early help and prevention efforts, aiming to support the overall family unit. Collaboration with the developing Family Hub and Locality initiatives is also a key aspect of the role.

About You

The ideal candidate should have experience in engaging with diverse cultures and backgrounds when working with young people and families. They should be skilled in case management and meeting deadlines effectively. Experience within a collaborative prevention framework involving partners from statutory and voluntary sectors is important. Basic educational qualifications such as GCSE-level literacy and numeracy are expected. Strong communication, relationship-building, negotiation, and interpersonal skills are essential. The candidate should possess organizational agility, adaptability, and a results-oriented approach.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk