Young Person's Victim Support Practitioner

Music to My Ears (MTME) is a creative trauma-informed service supporting young people who are  victims of serious violence and are being criminally exploited. The service uses music creative arts mentoring and outreach-based interventions to build trusted relationships and engage young people who may not respond to traditional talking approaches.

You will deliver interventions to children & young people (C&YP) to enable them to develop and build their resilience confidence healthy relationships and make positive decisions. Using the medium of creative arts you will aim to engage and start a dialogue where traditional talking interventions would not be appropriate.

The Trauma-Informed victim support practitioner will work directly with C&YP who are victim of serious youth violence. You will deliver one-to-one and group-based interventions using creative and relational approaches to reduce harm improve wellbeing and prevent escalation into further victimisation or offending.

As a young persons victim support practitioner your main duties will include:

• Undertaking one to one work with children and young people (C&YP) who have been identified as victims of serious youth violence. This includes informing a risk management plan identified/agreed with the lead professional for each C&YP and linking with other relevant partners/agencies.
• Deliver trauma-informed one-to-one interventions and mentoring.
• Use creative arts outdoor activities and engagement-focused approaches.
• Support emotional wellbeing resilience and stress management.
• Facilitate peer-led groups and restorative approaches where appropriate.
• Engage families and carers.
• Manage caseloads assessments and outcome tracking.
• Work closely with multi-agency partners.

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Qualifications :

• Minimum 5 GCSEs (grade C or above) or equivalent.
• Skills knowledge and experience relevant for the job.
• Desirable: relevant qualification in youth/community work social care health or education.

Additional Information :

Salary: up to 27000 ( dependent on knowledge skills and experience )
Hours of Work: Full time 
Contract: 1 year fix-term 
Flexibility: This is a outreach and engagement role within the Surrey community (main office is in Leatherhead)

 *This role requires an up to date driving licence access to a vehicle MOT and business insurance.
*You may be required to work out of hours including evenings and weekends where necessary in addition to travel around Surrey on a daily basis and occasional travel around the UK.
*Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check required.

Catch22 is committed to staff recruitment and retention and offers a range of training learning and development opportunities. Your continuous professional development is as important to us as it is to you.

Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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Unless otherwise stated interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified so early application is strongly advised.

We aim to review applications as quickly as possible. However due to the volume of interest we receive we may not be able to contact all applicants individually. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date please assume that your application has not been successful this time.

At Catch22 we value equality diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them a purpose and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

Please note we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media. 

If you are applying for this role and are care experienced/care leaver Catch22 offers a mentor to assist with the application process.  Please contact if you would like to find out more about this support.  This information will not be passed to the team recruiting for this position. For more information about the Propel Programme and a guide for candidates who wish to join the programme please see here. You can also watch an animation on the programme here. 

Catch22s Commitment to Ban the Box

Catch22 is proud to have Banned the Box. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead we invite disclosures at interview stage and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see our statement of commitment on hiring people with convictions for more information.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time