Impactful Lead Practitioner, Adolescent Help Team

Royal Greenwich; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership team

Learning & development

Reflective supervision

Flexible working

Annual leave

Pension scheme

Wellbeing package

Job summary

Royal Borough of Greenwich is seeking a Lead Practitioner to support adolescents and families within the Adolescent Help Teams. You will blend direct practice with coaching, mentoring and professional leadership to embed high-quality, evidence-informed interventions across the service.

You will lead complex interventions, coordinate multi-agency plans, and work collaboratively with parents and wider networks to promote wellbeing and safety.

Qualifications

• Qualified in a relevant professional discipline (Social Work, Youth Justice, Family Support, Early Help) and registered or eligible for registration.
• Experience with adolescents and families facing complex challenges.
• Strong safeguarding knowledge and understanding of child development and parenting capacity.
• Experience leading complex interventions and coordinating multi‑agency plans.
• Understanding trauma, neglect, domestic abuse, substance misuse, and parental mental health impacts.
• Experience with strengths-based, systemic, restorative or relationship-focused practice.
• Ability to analyse risk, formulate plans and measure outcomes.
• Excellent communication, coaching and partnership-working skills.
• Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice, inclusion and delivering high-quality services.
• Ability to support and develop less experienced colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate interventions with children, young people and families with complex needs.
• Ensure timely and effective support for concerns relating to extra-familial harm and risk of family breakdown.
• Develop and oversee Family Help Plans focused on measurable outcomes and sustainable change.
• Collaborate with parents, carers and wider family networks to inform planning.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and supervision to colleagues; model best practice.
• Maintain accurate case records and ensure safeguarding policies are followed.
• Work with multi-agency partners to develop coordinated plans.

Skills

Coaching

Mentoring

Leadership

Relationship building

Education

Social Work qualification

Job description

Royal Borough of Greenwich is seeking a Lead Practitioner to support adolescents and families within the Adolescent Help Teams. You will blend direct practice with coaching, mentoring and professional leadership to embed high-quality, evidence-informed interventions across the service.

You will lead complex interventions, coordinate multi-agency plans, and work collaboratively with parents and wider networks to promote wellbeing and safety.