Intervention Coach – Young Adults

Full Title - Young Adult Intervention Coach - Targeted Intervention Casework and Street Work.

Location: Tower Hamlets

Contract: Permanent, subject to funding

Hours: 35 hours per week

Starting Salary: £33,500 (Top Salary Band for this role: £35,000)

Do you have the values, personal qualities and experience to support high risk young people who are hard to engage and those involved in harm and affected by exploitation and violence?

Do you have the tenacity, resilience, determination and consistency to identify, disrupt, challenge, and support young people to move out of harm and prevent further involvement in harmful activities. Are you committed to social justice, equity and inclusion?

Do you want to be part of a growing and developing Charity that is ambitious for the young communities that we serve? If yes, then you could be joining our innovative, specialist Intervention Team.

Benefits Summary:     

·Working in a values-led, award-winning charity with local, national, and international connections.

·25 annual leave days plus bank holidays per year, increasing in year 2.

·A fair and benchmarked salary with consistent salary reviews and structured career progression pathway with opportunities for senior roles.

·A Pension Scheme contribution of up to 8%.

·A supportive working culture with Employee Assistance Scheme available 24/7.

·Comprehensive, ongoing training and professional development across fields of targeted intervention, harm reduction, youth development.

·Access to leading organisations and individuals in relevant fields.

·An annual budget of £200 for external professional development training.

·Excellent professional supervision with monthly and quarterly reflective practice sessions.

Who we are:

Streets of Growth is an award-winning, value-led, outcome-driven charity, working to reduce harm and positively transform the lives of the most vulnerable and at-risk young people in Tower Hamlets, East London.

The role:

As a Young Adult Intervention Coach (YIC), you will be responsible for the assessment and implementation of tailored intervention coaching plans for each at risk young person on your caseload. You will work to achieve progression outcomes for each young person that includes reducing mental, physical, and emotional harm and supporting each young person transition to positive, thriving lifestyle both on a one-to-one basis, and in partnership with other individuals and agencies involved in the lives of each young person.

Your purpose is to identify, disrupt, challenge, and support young people to move out of harm and prevent further involvement in harmful activities. This will involve targeted street work, specialised one to one harm reduction and life skills coaching.

Alongside this you will work with intervention frontline colleagues in tertiary intervention such as knife and gun crime crisis situations as well as working with partner agencies.

Who we are looking for:

You will have robust frontline experience of working with young people, including experience in engaging, assessing, and delivering interventions designed to support young people to build personal resilience and move away from harm and violence. You will also possess sound risk assessment skills and safeguarding knowledge.  A key component of the job role is case management and knowledge of good practice models, which will underpin Streets of Growth practice, is essential.

To apply: Please submit an up-to-date CV and covering letter.

Closing date for applications:  11.59pm, 24th September 2024.

Interviews: To be held within 2 weeks of the closing date. If selected an initial online short informal interview (approx. 20 mins) and following this, if shortlisted, an in-person formal interview (approx. 40 minutes) at our offices in Aldgate.

Streets of Growth is committed to diversity in all that it does and strongly encourages applications from every part of the communities we serve. All appointments are made on merit. At Streets of Growth, we would like to encourage applications from people both with and without criminal convictions, however the job offer has to be subject to vetting. Due to the nature of the work, you are applying for you are required to disclose any criminal convictions that you have.

DBS Requirement: Enhanced DBS 

No agencies please.

You may have experience of: youth case work, youth worker, youth crisis management, caseworker, social work, social services, street pastoring, youth centre worker, youth support services etc.

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