CYP practitioner

TIGER Child and Young Persons Practitioner

This post requires the postholder to work flexibly from Barnardo's offices in London and home, as well as attend meetings and deliver case work across London.

When completing your expression of interest please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Job Description. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Barnardo's TIGER Service

History of Service

Barnardo`s was the first voluntary organisation to listen and respond to the needs of sexually exploited children across the UK. The London service began in 1996 and has improved outcomes for a very significant number of vulnerable children across the years, working in close multi agency partnership with relevant statutory and voluntary agencies.

We have established a trauma and evidence informed approach to our work which will be both innovative and child centred: TIGER.

Objectives of Services

TIGER (Trauma Informed Growth and Empowered Recovery) is an umbrella service that uses an evidence-informed and evaluated trauma-informed approach to supporting children and young people who have experienced or are experiencing sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, displaying harmful sexual behaviour. The approach is designed to provide children and young people with the narrative to understand and express their experiences and coach them to recovery through empathetic listening, emotional regulation, positive psychology and personal goal-setting.

So what does that mean in practice? We…

• Currently work with any child between the ages of 3 and 18 (up to 25 with a disability)
• Provide a space in which they can express and explore their thoughts, feelings, and trauma experiences.
• Coach children and young people to identify their strengths and find the resource within themselves to aid their recovery.
• Help children and young people to set goals for themselves and to regain some form of control and self-belief.
• Help children understand pattens of abuse and explore healthy and unhealthy relationships.
• Work with schools, community, faith groups and commercial establishments to raise awareness of domestic abuse and impacts on CYP.
• Provide targeted group work support in schools and with community groups.

Initial Specific Responsibilities

Working within London TIGER Service you will be part of a dynamic team delivering and developing the TIGER approach across London. You will support colleagues by working in an agile way providing a suite of interventions to support children, young people and their families across London where there has been an allegation, or strong suspicion of exploitation, abuse, exposure to violence and harmful behaviours or domestic violence.

As a TIGER Practitioner your key responsibilities will be:

• Providing direct services to children, young people and their care-givers in need of trauma recovery.
• Working with groups of young people in schools who have experienced domestic violence.
• Providing training to professionals around HSB, CSE, CCE and Trauma Informed Practice
• Working closely with the TIGER managers to analyse and resolve problems and apply innovative solutions where no precedents exist
• Ensuring that children and young peoples are safeguarded at all times and your work is in accordance with safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures and you always promote the welfare of children
• Working with the TIGER managers to promote the TIGER Service, attend meetings as requested and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external partners
• Attending regular TIGER Service meetings and contributing to the quality of practice and the impact made on children, young people and/or families
• Creating a culture of safe, effective, inclusive and participatory practice within the TIGER Service

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently until April 2027 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 30.04.2027.   

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Reference number:22697
• Job Title:CYP practitioner
• Location:Tiger Services, London
• Contract type:Permanent (Fixed term funded post)
• End date:30th April 2027
• Hours:37
• Salary:£29,137.00 - £38,453.00
• Closing Date:30 April 2026
• Interview Date:tbc

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Additional Info

• Information Sheet for Applicants Applying for Positions Working with Children and Vulnerable Adults (updated July 2021).pdf (107.00 KB)
• Barnardo's Workplace Offer Visual Summary.pdf (27.58 KB)
• Project Worker 2 - Job Description and Person Specification.pdf (0.59 MB)
• Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy Dec 2024.pdf (164.07 KB)