Advanced Adolescent Practitioner - Brighton, United Kingdom - Brighton & Hove City Council

Brighton & Hove City Council
Brighton & Hove City Council
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BHCC Adolescent Service is pleased to announce that we are expanding our Substance Use and Health Service.


The posts sit within our already well developed, professional and collaborative team, RU-Ok? This skilled and well-established team provides a vital service to young people and their families within the city by working directly with young people whose life is being affected by substance use and other concerns such as sexual health, mental health and exploitation.


RU-Ok? work in partnership with other teams in our service such as Youth Offending and Functional Family Therapy Teams as well as community organisations to support a wide number of young people across the city.

We are looking to recruit motivated, reflective, creative practitioners who are committed to building strength-based relationships with young people.

Our model of practice focuses on creating relationships with young people and their network, to build intervention plans with the young people being at the forefront of how the interventions are undertaken and reviewed.

We are looking for people who enjoy working with adolescent aged young people, who can use their skills and knowledge to deliver evidenced-based structured interventions and be part of service development.


You will need to be committed to playing a part in dismantling racist structures and challenging racial inequality and all forms of discrimination - this is a lead focus of BHCC Adolescent Service and something that each team within the service is actively working to address through individual and collective learning and development.

All positions are full-time
- based at our central Brighton office. We operate a hybrid style of working; we are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our young people. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee's work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements and agreed with your manager in advance of joining.


As an Adolescent Advanced Practitioner with RU-OK? you will work closely with the manager to provide leadership within the RO-UK? team and across the Adolescent Service.

You will provide 121 supervisions to practitioners in the team as well as taking an active role in delivering and partaking in group supervision and the functioning and development of the team.

You will work with the multiagency practitioners within the adolescent service and partner agencies, to identify and meet children & young people's needs around substance use and connected issues related to Mental Health, Sexual Health and Exploitation.


We take a creative and innovative approach in responding to young people's needs, focussing on the effectiveness of trusting relationships, particularly with those young people with experience of trauma and attachment difficulties.

This can require workers to utilise their skills and knowledge in undertaking tasks which sit outside traditional specialist roles.

We believe in a "Team Around the Worker" model, which involves our workers receiving or offering specialist support and guidance within complex networks.


The post holder will support practitioner to co-create and deliver interventions, alongside young people experiencing problems with their substances use.

You will support staff to develop their skills and knowledge by delivering attuned and purposeful supervision and by developing and delivering training to our staff and across the wider service.


You will assist staff in preparing for a range of statutory meetings and who work closely with parents and carers to build a more robust network for young people.

You will work collaboratively with the manager to create a pathway for young people transitioning from RU-OK? to statutory and adult substance use services.

You will also be required to work in partnership with a number of other services to create a more comprehensive understanding of how best to work with young people who are experiencing harm through their substance use and connected issue such as exploitation and mental health.

The role offers opportunities to deliver training and consultation across the city. You will also have access to the council's comprehensive learning and development offer.

Our service is committed to ensuring equality of provision and we are proud to work within Brighton & Hove, which has pledged to be an anti-racist council.


You will have had substantial experience of providing supervision, developing services within teams, working with adolescents, including experience and knowledge of risk assessment, safeguarding procedures and child development.

For full details of essential criteria, please see attached job description and person specification.

At Brighton & Hove City Council we offer staff a range of benefits.

If you choose to work for us, in return we can offer you:


  • A competitive sala
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