Are you?
- Passionate about working with and safeguarding Adolescents and young people at risk in the community
- Committed to making a visible difference to the lives of Ealing’s children and their families
- Committed to multi-agency working
If so, we have the ideal role for you!
An opportunity has arisen in the MAST Adolescent service to recruit a knowledgeable and enthusiastic Adolescent Network Practitioner to work within our multi-disciplinary team of social workers, family practitioners, youth workers and psychologists.
MAST Adolescent focuses primarily on children who experience harm outside of their family homes. We are adopting a Contextual Safeguarding Approach, which we see as key to addressing many of the risk our young people potentially face including Child Sexual Exploitation, Criminal Exploitation, Serious Youth Violence, Gangs, Missing, Radicalisation and online/social media abuse.
You will work within MAST Adolescent and across the multi-agency partnership, gathering, tracking and analysing information about young people, groups and locations. You will be required to work closely and develop good working relationships with key partner agencies and other teams within social care.
This is a new role within Ealing and an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to the further development of contextual safeguarding processes within Ealing. You will lead on mapping of young people’s connections other individuals as well as places that are of concern to help inform plans for children as well as work around spaces and disruption opportunities.
We are looking for someone with a good understanding of the issues facing young people and with strong abilities to co-ordinate, analyse and present data.
The role supports a combination of working from home and office-based working.
What you will need:
Substantial experience of working in a field related to adolescents in an inner city context
Experience of undertaking risk assessment, planning and reviewing trends/patterns to understand risk to/by adolescents to help inform risk assessments for individual young people.
What can Ealing offer you?
- An exciting opportunity to develop your career within a supportive, well organised structure
- On-going personalised training and development opportunities, including leadership training
- Access to a wide range of high-quality resources to support children and their families
- An excellent benefits package with a range of innovative programmes to help you look after your health and well-being.
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 post is subject to Ealing’s enhanced vetting process.
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.
If you would like to discuss this role before applying, please contact Natasha Thomas (020)8 825 5855 or Christina Evers (020)8 825 5951 email EversC@ealing.gov.uk
