Intervention Coaching Practitioner

Targeted outreach, casework and harm reduction with young people aged 15 to 21.

Reporting to: Frontline Director

DBS: Enhanced DBS required

Some young people will never walk through a service's door. So we go to them.

Streets of Growth works with young people in Tower Hamlets who are caught up in harm outside the home: exploitation, grooming, violence, harmful peer groups and co-offending. We're looking for an Intervention Coaching Practitioner who can find them, earn their trust, and stay alongside them for the two years it takes to build a different life.

Can you build trust with a young person who has every reason not to trust adults? Will you keep turning up when they refuse to engage, relapse, or go quiet for a week? Do you believe every young person can move beyond harm, and are you ready to do the work that proves it?

The role

You will hold a caseload of up to 25 young people and be their lead practitioner from first contact to the end of our two-year AIM+ programme. That means outreach on the streets, estates and neighbourhoods where they spend their time, one-to-one coaching and harm reduction work, group workshops, and coordinating everyone involved in their lives, from families and schools to social workers, police and youth justice.

You will spot risk early, plan for safety over the long term rather than session to s...