Turnaround Specialist Practitioner Role

London Borough of Newham; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The London Borough of Newham is seeking a Turnaround Specialist Practitioner to deliver voluntary, community-based, intensive support to children, young people and families at risk of extra-familial harm or offending.

You will assess needs, plan and deliver evidence-based support using a systemically informed practice model, and work with an inter-disciplinary service to promote educational and emotional development and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of current practice and service development issues concerning Children and young people who offend and their families.
• Experience of engaging and supporting vulnerable children, young people and families.
• Ability to produce high-quality evidence-based assessments and have well developed written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver voluntary community-based, intensive support to children, young people and families where there is an emerging risk of extra-familial harm or risk of offending and Anti‑Social Behaviour.
• Assess the needs of children and families, plan and deliver, evidence-based support using a systemically informed practice model.
• Work collaboratively within an inter-disciplinary service to promote educational and emotional development and wellbeing.

Skills

Engagement with vulnerable groups

Written and oral communication

Evidence-based assessment

Inter-disciplinary collaboration

Job description

WE ARE NEWHAM

We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. Newham a challenging yet rewarding place to work supporting young people who are involved or at risk of being involved with the Youth Justice System. We are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with, and we are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.

Job Description

Turnaround Specialist Practitioner

£42,492 - £45,123 per annum

Fixed Term 1 year

We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. Newham a challenging yet rewarding place to work supporting young people who are involved or at risk of being involved with the Youth Justice System. We are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with, and we are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.

We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our ‘Circles of Support’ practice model. Newham’s Youth Justice aims to prevent crime, and the fear of crime, by ensuring that services are available to support children and young people in the criminal justice system whilst ensuring the needs of victims and our communities are taken into account and that we look to tackle disproportionality wherever we find it.

About The Job

The Turnaround programme is an early intervention and prevention initiative led by Local Authorities in England and Wales and supported by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) The aim of the programme reduces children entering the Criminal Justice System.

As a Turnaround Specialist Practitioner you will deliver voluntary community based, intensive support to children, young people and families where there is an emerging risk is risk of extra-familial harm or where there is a risk of offending and Anti‑Social Behaviour.

You will assess the needs of children and families as well as planning and delivering, evidence-based support, using a systemically informed practice model.

You will work collaboratively within an inter-disciplinary service to promote children and young people’s educational and emotional development and wellbeing.

About You

You will have knowledge of current practice and service development issues concerning Children and young people who offend and their families.

You will have experience of engaging and supporting vulnerable children, young people and families.

You will be able to produce high-quality evidence-based assessments and have well developed written and oral communication skills.

People are at the heart of everything we do. Our core values are respect, aspiration, empowering culture, integrity, working together. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced practitioner who is willing to work within Newham Youth Justice Service values.

WHY WORK WITH US?

• A commitment to addressing disproportionality wherever we find it.
• We’re an Outstanding local authority focused on reaching excellence.
• We offer genuinely flexible/hybrid working as long as children and young people are seen.
• Stability: 100% of our Senior Managers and 71% of Team Managers are permanent.
• Our firmly established practice model, Circles of Support, was recently nominated for the prestigious MJ Award for Innovation in Children’s Services and allows systemic, restorative practice to flourish.
• Career progression is possible with Newham; we promoted 30 internal colleagues in 2023 and have already promoted 30 to date in 2024.
• A competitive compensation package
• Oyster card/parking permit for business use.
• Wellbeing service, leisure and discount benefits (Council scheme).
• Travel season ticket loan, cycle scheme, Local Authority pension.

Closing date: 27.9.26

Additional Information

We are committed to creating an inclusive, anti‑racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. If you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need, that’s all that matters to us.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn .

About Us

The London Borough of Newham is located only 5 miles east of London. It is well positioned with access to all major networks in London and the south east. It is well connected by public transport with, bus, tube and DLR. When the Crossrail service opens it will call at Custom House close to our council offices and also Stratford station and from there to central London. The London City Airport which serves major European cities is located at Royal Albert Dock. Newham has the youngest overall population in the country. It was one of the six host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and contains most of the Olympic Park including the London Stadium. It has a thriving arts quarter with the Theatre Royal Stratford East offering excellent entertainment for all the family. There is the University of East London which has two campuses in Newham, one in Stratford and another next to the regenerated Royal Albert Dock. It also has a large Westfield shopping Centre in Stratford which has all the major retailers there.