Adolescent Social Work Assistant

Role Responsibility

Are you hardworking, committed, and passionate about helping young people and their families? The Integrated Adolescent Service recognises that adolescents should be given a bespoke offer of support. Many of the young people we work with have experienced developmental trauma and disrupted attachments, resulting in them being vulnerable to extra familial harm. We want professionals capable of bringing understanding and emotional intelligence to everything they do. The service promotes a practice philosophy which seeks to develop a secure trusting relationship to empower young people and their families, building on individual strengths, and helping them to develop strategies which support them to understand, manage and respond to the difficulties they face. Many of the young people we work with have experienced developmental trauma and disrupted attachments, the development of a secure trusting relationship is a key aspect of our work. Work is mai...