Adolescent Response Practice Supervisor

Role Responsibility

Kent County Council’s  Adolescent Response Team is seeking a Practice Supervisor for maternity cover.  The available position is a part-time fixed term / secondment for 18.5 hours per week.  Additional hours may be available for the right candidate.

The service provides non-case holding additional support which prevents adolescents from coming in to care and to address the risks to them which come from outside the family home. 

We welcome applicants with significant relevant professional experience in working directly with adolescents and their families.  The successful candidate will possess strong skills in managing and supporting staff, along with a solution focused approach and excellent mediation abilities.  A solid understanding of Contextual Safeguarding is essential, as well as the ability to recognise how external risks can influence family dynamics and potentially lead to family breakdown.  

The Adolescent Response Teams main function:

To provide effective non-case holding intervention to adolescents and their carers at those times of crisis during which adolescents are most likely to either enter or to move care arrangements.  This requires solution-focussed practitioners with excellent mediation and conflict management skills. 

The Practice Supervisor’s role will include screening referrals to the service, booking responses for practitioners, and providing ongoing support and supervision to those practitioners to ensure effective and consistent practice.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This service is currently funded until 31^st March 2026.  

Interviews will be held on the 21^st September 2025.

Contact Details

If you require any additional information, please contact Helen Burton (Adolescent Safeguarding Manager) at helen.burton@kent.gov.uk

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.