Edge of Care Senior Adolescent Practitioner Job at Reigate Full Time NEW

This full-time, permanent position has a starting salary of £42,958 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week.

We are excited to be hiring Edge of Care Senior Adolescent Practitioners to join our fantastic Edge of Care service.

This position operates on a shift basis, with some planned evening and weekend work.

This is a county-wide service, where you can work from any of our Surrey offices. As a team, we come together every month at our Woodhatch office in Reigate.

Our Offer to You

26 days’ holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years’ service and 31 days after 5 years’ service
Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
A generous local government salary related pension
Up to 5 days of carer’s leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year
Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping
A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents
Help families stay strong, connected and together. Join Surrey’s Edge of Care service.

At Surrey County Council, our Edge of Care service supports young people aged 11-18 and their families at times when home life feels at breaking point. Without the right support, many of these young people may be at risk of entering care-and that’s where our team steps in to make a real difference.

We provide intensive, structured and highly personalised support, working alongside the wider professional network to help families:

Build resilience and confidence in their ability to cope
Develop problem solving skills
Achieve and maintain positive behaviour change
Strengthen relationships and reduce contextual safeguarding risks

What makes our approach unique is not just what we do, but how we do it. We work holistically with the whole family, offering targeted interventions that create lasting, meaningful change-not just another professional asking them to retell their story.

We work with children and young people, and their families in a restorative and trauma informed way, using a compassionate, relationship-based approach to strengthen families and prevent care experiences.

If you’re passionate about helping families achieve safety, stability and stronger futures, this is a place where your work will genuinely change lives.

About the Role

As an Edge of Care Senior Practitioner, you’ll play a crucial leadership focussed role within Surrey’s Adolescent Services, working at the heart of where support can make the biggest difference. You’ll help prevent children and young people from entering care by offering intensive, relationship‑based support to them and their families at moments of crisis. You’ll also lead efforts to reunify children with their parents or strengthen existing foster placements, ensuring more young people can thrive within a safe and stable family setting.

Blending hands‑on therapeutic work with supervision and service development, this role offers the opportunity to shape practice, influence positive outcomes, and champion the voices of children and families.

Your key responsibilities as an Edge of Care Senior Practitioner will include:

Providing intensive intervention and case management, holding a small caseload of complex, high‑risk situations where children are at imminent risk of entering care.
Delivering therapeutic and practical support within family homes to stabilise situations and strengthen relationships.
Providing leadership and reflective supervision to Adolescent Support Workers, supporting their development and oversight of their practice.
Acting as lead practitioner in a multidisciplinary team, coordinating support with partners such as health, education and police to ensure a holistic, tailored response.
Supporting service development and quality assurance, including practice audits, group work with young people and families, and ensuring their voices shape service improvement.
Contributing to crisis management, deputising for the Team Manager when required.
Using restorative, systemic or strengths‑based approaches to build trust, empower…