Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. It drives us. And it's the reason our Children's Services team push themselves to transform the lives of children and families – in person, in service centres nationwide, and through the knowledge they share. Join us as a Children's Services Practitioner (Level 3)  and make a contribution that means everything.

This is an amazing and rare opportunity for a passionate practitioner to join a dynamic, innovative and committed Together for Childhood team. 

‘Together for Childhood' (TfC) is an ambitious, 10-year NSPCC initiative that uses a place-based approach to build and sustain local community partnerships. These partnerships are designed to understand, share and promote a preventative approach to ending child abuse. They recognise that a community where there is less abuse is one where:  

• the places where children spend time are made safer 
• adults take action to keep children safe 
• children know what abuse is and are able to speak out 
• early and effective action is taken if challenges emerge  

Our Stoke on Trent team have a focus on the prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, working with children, families, communities and professionals to deliver prevention activities and intervention services. We are child focused and community led, operating a place based plan in Chell, Chell Heath and Fegg Hayes. Are you a person who;

• Is passionate about prevention?
• Understands safeguarding and has knowledge/experience of the pathways that contribute to Child Sexual Abuse, including Harmful and Problematic Sexual Behaviour?
• Can work alongside a lead practitioner to deliver specific actions detailed within a comprehensive delivery plan?
• Is confident and capable of building relationships with children, families, communities and professionals?
• Values communities and has a "work with" attitude?
• Is strengths based?
• Is a team player and always looks for new, dynamic ways to deliver a service?
• Is committed to ongoing professional development?

If you have these skills then this job could be perfect for you! 

The Children's Services Practitioner Level 2 role is a rewarding, challenging and never boring! Supporting qualified social workers to deliver actions that sit within our plan, the role requires flexibility, forward thinking and energy. The plan consists of 6 themes – Early Years & Health, Schools & Education, Youth & Communities, Sport & Recreation, Adults & Communities and Organisational Change. The CSP2 works with a designated CSP3 to drive forward preventative activities within a specific area of the plan. This could involve attending community events, designing and delivering supplementary educational programmes, creating resources to keep children safe, influencing policy change, delivering training, supporting youth groups, working with professionals to inform practise development and much more.

All of our practitioners have a duel role of direct work (a small case load) and development work (prevention activities). We learn from both aspects of the work to continually strive to improve our offer. We are a very high performing team with expectations of high quality. Are you looking for a role that can offer:

• excellent managerial support?
• a very healthy work culture?
• a team with a wonderful blend of knowledge, experience and skills, training opportunities?
• freedom to develop and implement new programmes and projects?
• free onsite parking at the office base?
• opportunity to be a part of something ground breaking?
• at the forefront of local research and evaluation?
• space to create new approaches or evidence based ways of working that are locally relevant and nationally significant?

Join us and you'll become part of a team that cares about the work they do and the people they work with. You'll discover opportunities to grow, along with challenges and a shared purpose that'll bring the best out in you. And you'll get to find your own way to make a difference that means more, and that impacts millions of young lives.

For more information please contact rachael.holdcroft@nspcc.org.uk