Harmful Sexual behaviour Practitioner

The Service & Team:
Gweres Kernow is a specialist team that sits within the Youth Justice Service (YJS), part of Gweres Tus Yownyk (a Cornish phrase meaning Helping Young People) which is our Specialist Adolescent Service. Gweres Kernow works with children and young people exhibiting harmful sexual behaviours across Early Help, Social Care and Youth Justice. The aim is to provide advice guidance and support to other professionals working with children displaying harmful sexual behaviour and provide direct work to children and families, implementing safety plans and addressing the issues relating to children's harmful behaviour., This is an exciting opportunity to join an established team that is reviewing and updating the way we work with children and young people. As a specialist Harmful Sexual Behaviour worker you will be part of a network of professionals assessing and addressing risk and need. You will attend strategy discussions and provide consultation, advice and guidance in relation to presenting behaviours. You will provide effective interventions to children and families to address need and plan for safety. The work of the team is supported by a Clinical Psychologist who helps with formulation, trauma informed intervention planning and reflective practice.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
This post is 21 hours per week
What you'll need to succeed, Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Applicants must have a Social Work Qualification or equivalent (such as Youth Justice, Targeted Youth Worker) or other therapeutic qualifications e.g., Counselling, Therapeutic Life Story work, Art Therapy, Drama Therapy, Play therapy & Registration with appropriate professional body (e.g., APAC, UKCP, BACP, HPC, SWE
You must also have experience of working with children and young people with complex needs and demonstrate a good understanding of relevant theory/ research and experience in applying the evidence base to work with children, young people and families to promote recovery from trauma.
You will have excellent communication and assessment skills and be able to accurately record information on a database.
You will have a strong sense of the child's lived experience at the centre of your practice.
You will be familiar with critical reflection, and you will also be familiar with the need for positive challenge and have a record of achieving good standards of practice.
This post requires the development of specialist knowledge in the area of young people with harmful sexual behaviours. A range of carefully selected training and professional development opportunities will be available to the successful applicant alongside regular professional supervision and support.

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year.
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It's a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

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What you'll get in return:
Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
· a competitive salary.
· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
· A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.