Working
with us

 

We believe that it's the quality of the people who work with us that sets us apart – their energy, commitment, skills and burning desire to make a difference to young people's lives.

We offer a working environment that values staff, promotes improvement and is small enough to give you a real chance to influence and achieve.

 

 

Professional development opportunity

At Young Futures we are committed to delivering the highest standard of care to our young people and we invest in our staff to ensure they are appropriately qualified.  To deliver on our commitment we support all our full-time staff to complete the Children, Young People and Families Practitioner Diploma.

This Ofsted recognised qualification is considered the gold standard for practitioners. To help you achieve this we offer a personal tutor, dedicated study time and a £1,000 study bonus.

 

 

Current career opportunities

 

 

We're looking for kind, energetic, passionate and fun individuals who love a challenge, have some experience of working with young people and want to make a big difference

 

Therapist, Children's Home & Community Settings

Part-Time, 3 to 4 days pw

£45,000 pro-rata + pension + travel to work expenses + external clinical supervision + wellbeing budget
 

We are recruiting a creative, flexible, and fun Therapist to provide 1:1 therapy to children and young people in care aged 13 to 19 years old. You will support the development of critical social and emotional skills to help emotional regulation, improve social skills, and deal with here-and-now issues.

At Young Futures we put love and compassion into everything we do. We're here to make a BIG difference to the lives of the children and young people in our care. We are also passionate about learning and development and committed to providing an outstanding experience for all.

A typical working day will include up to 4 x 1:1 therapy sessions, attending key meetings with the network, and internal meetings around care and safety planning.

Please note that under Section 7(2) (b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 only women are eligible to apply for the position as a large part of the work will take place at our all-female Children's Home, Yvonne House.

Do you have?

  • At least 2-years' work experience along with an outstanding track record in making a difference to the lives of children and young people.
  • An understanding of how previous experiences and present emotions can be communicated through behaviour and have the competence and skills to interpret these, and to help young people do the same.
  • Safeguarding competences to identify and act upon signs that a child or young person is at risk of harm.  
  • An understanding of the challenges in delivering frontline support.
  • Ambition matched with a desire for continuous professional development. 

Timescales 

Apply by: As soon as possible

Interviews: 1st Round online on Teams  before Tuesday 17th December 

Start Date: From January 2025

 

Click for full Job Description and Person Specification

Please fill out an application form and equal opportunities monitoring form

Please email your completed application form with CV to osman.jama@youngfutures.org.uk

Please email your completed EO Monitoring Form to lauren.brown@youngfutures.org.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 


Investing in our People

We value the importance of determining the right strategy, keeping everyone on board, enhancing our management practices and continuously evaluating what's working or needs further improvement. We deliver services in an increasingly competitive, rapidly changing sector with limited resources.

For us, the effective development of our collective talents and career prospects is the only way we can ensure sustained growth and competitive advantage.

 

Diversity, Inclusion and Equality

We are committed to embedding inclusive practices, promoting equality and valuing diversity in all of our activities. We understand and acknowledge the positive benefits that this commitment will bring to the young people we support, our staff and our partner organisations.

We are striving to be an employer of choice for all and take measures to ensure that Young Futures is attracting recruits from the most skilled and committed people regardless of their background. Whilst we can already be proud of some examples of excellent practice, we are not complacent and recognise that we can always do better.

For 2024-25 we have set ourselves a number of challenging but achievable targets in our new Inclusion and Equality Action Plan.

 

 

Salary & Benefits 

We believe all staff should be paid well for work that delivers excellent services and changes the lives of young people in and leaving care.

As a result we offer:


  • Highly competitive sector salaries
  • Staff well-being initiatives that promote selfcare and underpin reflective practice
  • A pension
  • A generous training budget
  • Paid work-related travel

 

Young Futures Social Care

info@youngfutures.org.uk 127 Lambeth Walk, London. SE11 6EE

For placement enquires and/or to request a Statement of Purpose please call: Osman Jama on 07811 155838

Business/Admin Monday to Friday 9am-5pm Tel: 07811 155 838

Community out-of-hours on-call Monday to Friday 5pm to 9am, weekends and Bank Holidays Tel: 07435 964 589

Yvonne House duty 24/7 Tel: 07896 102 842