Adolescent Practitioner

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Job Reference SCC/TP/287946/5838

Apply for this job Number of Positions: 1 Contract Type: Permanent Contract Details: N/A Salary: £34,660 per annum Working Hours: 36 hours per week Location: Dakota, 11 De Havilland Drive, Weybridge, KT13 0YP Closing Date: 25/10/2026 Job Category: Care - Children and Young People Directorate: Children, Families & Lifelong Learning Service: CFL - Family Res&Safe

Job Introduction

The starting salary for this full-time, permanent position is £34,660 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.

The Safer Team provides rapid and intensive support to vulnerable children who go missing, are at risk of, or are experiencing extra-familial harm, and in situations where safer context work is required within local communities. The team also works across and supports the wider functions of the Central Hub within Surrey’s Adolescent Service.

We support hybrid working with the right balance; supporting a mixture of working from home, in the office, and working with children and their networks for the rest of the time.

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 Safer Team supports young people and their families through a strengths based, trauma informed approach, delivering intensive interventions for those at risk of or experiencing extra familial harm. This includes Return Home Interviews, contextual safeguarding work within communities, group work in schools and other settings, as well as one to one work with children and carers.

Working alongside Social Workers, Early Help practitioners and wider Children's Services teams, the Safer Team helps ensure support plans are effective in increasing safety for a child, and young people receive the right help at the right time. The team also provides specialist guidance across locality hubs, promoting consistent and effective contextual safeguarding practice.

The biggest impact you will have will be on the lives of children. If you are passionate about wanting to work with children and young people to achieve positive change, then being an Adolescent Practitioner within the Safer Team will provide you with opportunities to support some of the most vulnerable young people in Surrey.

Your Application

In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align