Job Introduction
We are looking for a dedicated Bank School Aged Service Practitioner to provide trauma-informed support to children and young people, ensuring their voices are central to care and decision-making.
This role involves working across all school-aged services, delivering drop-in sessions, one-to-one appointments, group-based interventions or supporting the delivery of whole school public health approaches. The focus will be on four key areas: emotional health and wellbeing, risk behaviours, lifestyle behaviour change, and healthy relationships, including those with parents and other trusted adults.
As part of this role, you will lead Team Around Family and School Conversations, act as an advocate for young people, and drive systemic change by embedding trauma-informed practices across the system.
Your work will be based across Essex, covering specific areas across the county, with flexibility to meet the evolving needs of children and young people. The base location will be confirmed at the interview.
If you are passionate about making a difference and committed to supporting young people in reaching their full potential, we would love to hear from you.
Main Responsibility
- Provide accessible drop-in and appointment-based support, deliver group interventions, and build trusting relationships to empower young people.
- Plan and implement targeted interventions across emotional health and wellbeing, risk behaviours, lifestyle behaviour change, and healthy relationships.
- Champion young people’s voices, advocate for their needs, and facilitate Team Around Family and School Conversations.
- Develop strong relationships with schools, families, and community organisations to enhance service integration.
- Identify opportunities to influence system change and advocate for trauma-informed approaches in policy and practice.
- Engage in supervision, reflective practice, and ongoing training in trauma-informed care, safeguarding, and evidence-based interventions.
- Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, support young people in reducing risk behaviours, and collaborate with professionals to manage complex cases.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate
- Relevant degree or professional qualification in health, education, social care, or a related field.
- Experience working with children, young people, and families in a trauma-informed context.
- Proven ability to deliver one-to-one and group-based interventions.
- Strong understanding of trauma-informed practice and its application in school-aged services.
- Knowledge of child development, emotional wellbeing, and the impact of adverse childhood experiences.
- Strong organisational skills to manage a varied caseload and contribute to system-wide change.
- Commitment to collaboration and co-production with children, young people, and families.
- Flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of young people and the service.
Driving License: A valid driver's license and access to a vehicle for travel to different locations, including schools and partner organisations.
For more information please contact Angela Mooney at angela.mooney@hcrgcaregroup.com
Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.
Package Description
As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:
- Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
- Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
- HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
- Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
- Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
- Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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