Senior Adolescent Response Practitioner

Role Responsibility

Fixed Term, Part Time Contract- Until 31st August 2023

The role of the Adolescent Response Team is to provide an effective ‘Response’, which prevents adolescents coming into care, custody, and reduces, where relevant, placement breakdown.

To contribute to the development, delivery, and implementation of consistent and high-quality contextual safeguarding approaches for adolescents in Kent

The Adolescent Response Practitioners provide 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.  Some of this work is planned with case holders, and some will be on-call to respond to emerging crisis identified by case holders.

Practitioners need to be solution-focused and have excellent mediation and conflict management skills, to intervene safely and effectively in the times of crisis.

Secondment opportunity is available for internal applicants.

Interviews are currently scheduled for the 27th May 2022.

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.

Contact Details

For more information regarding this role, please contact:

Rebecca Hammond on 03000 417280 or rebecca.hammond@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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 and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

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