Children & Young People’s Practitioners – Children’s Home

Children & Young People Now Jobs; City Of London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's support organisation in London is seeking Children & Young People’s Practitioners to support young women's needs in a nurturing environment. The role involves assisting in health, education, and daily living, and requires experience with young people. A commitment to equality and inclusion is essential. This full-time or part-time position offers competitive pay and staff well-being initiatives.

Benefits

Competitive sector salaries

Staff well-being initiatives

Pension

Generous training budget

Paid work-related travel

Qualifications

• Experience of supporting young people in settings such as residential care, mentoring, or youth work.
• Ability to build safe and trusting relationships.
• Confidence to recognise and respond appropriately to risk and safeguarding concerns.

Responsibilities

• Support young women’s health, education, and day-to-day living needs.
• Lead on a specialist strand of work, such as promoting sports, culture, or the arts.

Skills

Experience in residential care, mentoring, or youth work

Warmth and kindness

Commitment to equality and inclusion

Ability to respond to safeguarding concerns

Resilience and ambition for professional growth

Education

Diploma qualification

Job description

Overview

Children & Young People’s Practitioners – Children’s Home (Full-Time & Part-Time)
Hours: Full-Time (36 hours pw - shift work including weekends) & Part-Time (24 Hrs pw - fixed shifts, working days TBC)
Salary: £27,400 to £29,000 (pro-rata) pa + benefits
Location: London, Zone 2 - Lambeth SW8
Women only – Genuine Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010

Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of young women in care aged 13-17?

This organisation provides a safe, nurturing, and empowering home for young women aged 13–17. Many of the young people that they support have experienced trauma, loss, and instability. This organisation's role is to offer care that is unconditional, trauma-informed, and compassionate – building trust, promoting healing, and inspiring hope for the future.

This employer is passionate about learning and development – for staff as much as for young people. Shortly after probation, they will enrol you on a Diploma qualification and provide the support, time, and financial incentives you need to succeed.

They are looking for women with:

• Experience of supporting young people in settings such as residential care, mentoring, teaching, or youth work.
• Warmth, kindness, humour, and the ability to build safe and trusting relationships.
• Strong values and a genuine commitment to equality and inclusion.
• Confidence to recognise and respond appropriately to risk and safeguarding concerns.
• Resilience, reflection, and ambition for professional growth.

About the role

As a Children & Young People’s Practitioner, you will:

• Support young women’s health, education, and day-to-day living needs.
• Lead on a specialist strand of work, such as promoting sports, culture, or the arts.
• Be part of a dedicated team that places love, kindness, and authenticity at the heart of everything they do.

This organisation believes all staff should be paid well for work that delivers excellent services and changes the lives of young people in and leaving care.

This employer offers:

• Competitive sector salaries
• Staff well-being initiatives that promote self-care and underpin reflective practice
• A pension
• A generous training budget
• Paid work-related travel

Timescales:

• Applications submissions: ASAP and before 5pm Friday 19th September
• Interviews 1st Round online on Teams from Monday 15th September
• Start date: October 2025

Application Process:

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

Investing in their People

This employer values the importance of determining the right strategy, keeping everyone on board, enhancing management practices and continuously evaluating what's working or needs further improvement. They deliver services in an increasingly competitive, rapidly changing sector with limited resources.

For them, the effective development of their collective talents and career prospects is the only way they can ensure sustained growth and competitive advantage.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equality

This employer is committed to embedding inclusive practices, promoting equality and valuing diversity in all of their activities. They understand and acknowledge the positive benefits that this commitment will bring to the young people they support, their staff and their partner organisations.

They are striving to be an employer of choice for all and take measures to ensure that they attract recruits from the most skilled and committed people regardless of their background. Whilst they can already be proud of some examples of excellent practice, they are not complacent and recognise that they can always do better.

No agencies please.