Advanced Practitioner (AES)

Advanced Practitioner (Adolescent Service)

PO5: 54360 pa rising in annual increments to 57495 pa incl. LW

Fixed Term / Secondment Opportunity for 12 months

Full Time / Hybrid Working

Agency staff please click HERE to apply

About Us:

Located in the heart of South London Lambeth Borough is a vibrant community of over 317600 residents. Stretching from the dynamic neighbourhood of Streatham in the South to the iconic landmarks of Waterloo in the North we are proud to be the 9th largest borough in London. Our diversity is our strength with more than 130 languages spoken making Lambeth the home of the Windrush generation Londons largest LGBTQ community and a thriving Portuguese-speaking community.

It is an exciting time to join Lambeth Council we have bold ambitions for the future of Lambeths communities and residents through our Lambeth 2030 Plan Our Future Our Lambeth.

With exceptional schools lush green spaces including Brockwell Park cultural gems like the Black Cultural Archives and world-renowned institutions such as St Thomass Hospital Lambeth offers an enriching and dynamic environment.

Please have a look at our dedicatedOne Lambeth Values and Behaviours page.

About the Team:

Join the Adolescent Early Support Team. Help Us Change the Story for Adolescents

Some young people face increasing challenges long before they meet the threshold for statutory intervention.

They may be disengaging from education experiencing family conflict becoming vulnerable to exploitation going missing associating with risky peer groups struggling with emotional wellbeing or becoming involved in low-level offending behaviour. Too often support comes only after risks have become entrenched.

The Adolescent Early Support Team is a prevention and engagement service for young people aged 11-18 designed to intervene at the point of emerging risk and prevent escalation into crisis or statutory services. Through assertive outreach trusted relationships and adolescent-centred practice we support young people to reconnect with education strengthen family relationships and access positive pathways.

The team will operate as Lambeths adolescent prevention early support and engagement service providing intensive relationship-based support to adolescents who may not engage with traditional services. The team may offer some services out of hours and during weekends.

Our work is trauma-informed culturally responsive strengths-based and rooted in contextual safeguarding principles. Crucially for this team we are also investing in a researcher role to help us understand how we shape the improvements and how we can locally arrange our adolescent services offer in ways that prevent crisis intervention.

Why Join Us

Help shape an innovative new service from the outset
Work within a research-led adolescent-focused model
Deliver meaningful early intervention and prevention
Be part of a multi-disciplinary team
Influence system changes and improve outcomes for young people
Contribute to a service that aims to reduce harm inequality and escalation into higher-level services

Champion Excellent Adolescent Practice.

The Advanced Practitioner social work qualified will be a key practice leader supporting complex interventions while helping colleagues develop outstanding adolescent-focused practice.

About the Role

You will:
Lead on complex cases
Model high-quality direct work with young people and families
Support reflective practice and learning across the team
Coach and mentor practitioners
Promote trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches
Contribute to quality assurance and practice development

About You

You will:
Be recognised as an excellent social work practitioner
Have extensive experience working with vulnerable adolescents
Understand contextual and exploitation-related risks
Be passionate about practice leadership and workforce development
Have excellent assessment and relationship-building skills

The Adolescent Early Support Team is more than a new service. It is an opportunity to redesign how we support young people at the point where timely intervention can make the greatest difference.

If you believe in the power of relationships early intervention and adolescent-focused practice we would love to hear from you.

Join us in helping young people stay safe stay connected and realise their potential.

How to Apply:

To be considered for interview your CV and supporting statement will clearly evidence how you meet the shortlisting criteria on the personal specification marked A for application:

JD and Person Specification

We operate an anonymised application process so be sure to remove personal details when uploading your CV or personal statement.

Advert closing date: 9th of August at midnight

Please click here to view:Lambeth Staff Benefits

Successful candidates will be asked to apply for an Enhanced Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Further information about the DBS can be found at will be required to undertake a Cifas check. Further information about Cifas can be found hereCifas

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Manyara Walker at

At Lambeth we are dedicated to providing quality services and equal opportunities for all. We are committed to safer recruitment and are proud to be a Stonewall diversity champion a Living Wage Employer and to guarantee interviews for all disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria of the role. For a full list of our accreditations please clickhere.