About the Service
We provide intensive, structured and highly personalised support, working alongside the wider professional network to help families:
* Build resilience and confidence in their ability to cope
* Develop problem solving skills
* Achieve and maintain positive behaviour change
* Strengthen relationships and reduce contextual safeguarding risks
What makes our approach unique is not just what we do, but how we do it. We work holistically with the whole family, offering targeted interventions that create lasting, meaningful change – not just another professional asking them to retell their story. We work with children and young people, and their families in a restorative and trauma‑informed way, using a compassionate, relationship‑based approach to strengthen families and prevent care experiences. If you’re passionate about helping families achieve safety, stability and stronger futures, this is a place where your work will genuinely change lives.
About the Role
As an Edge of Care Senior Practitioner, you’ll play a crucial leadership‑focussed role within Surrey’s Adolescent Services, working at the heart of where support can make the biggest difference. You’ll help prevent children and young people from entering care by offering intensive, relationship‑based support to them and their families at moments of crisis. You’ll also lead efforts to reunify children with their parents or strengthen existing foster placements, ensuring more young people can thrive within a safe and stable family setting.
Blending hands‑on therapeutic work with supervision and service development, this role offers the opportunity to shape practice, influence positive outcomes, and champion the voices of children and families.
Key Responsibilities
* Providing intensive intervention and case management, holding a small caseload of complex, high‑risk situations where children are at imminent risk of entering care.
* Delivering therapeutic and practical support within family homes to stabilise situations and strengthen relationships.
* Providing leadership and reflective supervision to Adolescent Support Workers, supporting their development and oversight of their practice.
* Acting as lead practitioner in a multidisciplinary team, coordinating support with partners such as health, education and police to ensure a holistic, tailored response.
* Supporting service development and quality assurance, including practice audits, group work with young people and families, and ensuring their voices shape service improvement.
* Contributing to crisis management, deputising for the Team Manager when required.
* Using restorative, systemic or strengths‑based approaches to build trust, empower families, and support sustainable positive change.
We will support you from day one, with regular supervision, reflective supervision groups and high‑quality training.
Qualifications
* Substantial experience of supporting children and families in crisis.
* In‑depth understanding of the issues impacting the local community and adolescents.
* A passion and strength‑based approach to keep families together.
* Strong leadership ability with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
* High‑level assessment abilities and restorative practice knowledge.
Applicants will be expected to have a valid driving licence, access to a vehicle and be willing to travel across a wide geographical area. Reasonable adjustments where needed will be made for successful applicants who have a disability or long‑term health condition to enable them to fulfil the requirements of the job. An enhanced DBS check and the Children’s and Adults’ Barred List checks will be required.
Salary and Benefits
This full‑time, permanent position has a starting salary of £41,585 per annum, based on a 36‑hour working week.
* 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.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
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