Red Snapper Recruitment (RSR) Justice is a market leading recruitment business dedicated to providing top quality candidates and services to the offender rehabilitation and supervision work sectors.

RSR Justice are currently working with Abianda to recruit Young Women’s Practitioners.

Can you reach and engage young women who are criminally exploited through county lines?

Can you respectfully work shoulder to shoulder with young women who have multiple needs and experiences of trauma and violence against women and girls?

Have you got what it takes to go the extra mile for young women and hold hope that life for them can be different?

Role Summary:

Abianda is a London-based social enterprise that works with young women affected by violence and criminal exploitation and the professionals that support them. Abianda exists to ensure young women are no longer hidden in our communities and live free from harm and abuse. Abianda aims to bring about a culture shift in the way services are delivered to young women and girls, so they can access support that works for them, when they need it.

This role is part of a team of three and involves delivering one-to-one sessions and advocacy support to young women and girls affected by or at risk of criminal exploitation. You will work with a minimum of 12 highly vulnerable girls and young women per year using Abianda’s unique model of practice. You will be co-located in Islington’s Targeted Youth Support (TYS) team working collaboratively with colleagues to identify women and girls. This role also include the delivery of group work with girls and young women as well as delivery of training to local professionals.

Details of the role:

• Salary of £30,006 per annum, plus pension (reviewed annually)
• Full-time (35 hours per week)
• Fixed term contract for 1 year (with hope to extend dependent on funding)
• 25 days holiday per year (plus 3 to be taken in Dec when the office is closed), plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working, with at least 2 days in the office (Highbury, London N5) and some working from home.

Main Responsibilities:
Work with young women:

• Deliver one-to-one sessions and advocacy support to girls and young women between the age of 10-16 who are affected by county lines, criminal exploitation and violence;
• Engage one-to-one with a minimum of 12 young women per year across Islington using Abianda’s unique model of practice;
• Work with 40 young women a year through preventative group work in schools and community settings;
• Support young women to achieve their best hopes and project outcomes, including but not limited to, young women being better connected to services and professional network;
• Manage and respond to risk, disclosure, safeguarding and child protection issues in the unique context of criminal exploitation and violence, while working as part of multi-disciplinary professional networks and drawing on contextual safeguarding approaches;
• Use Abianda case management systems to ensure there are accurate and up-to-date records of all work undertaken with or on behalf of young women and provide timely and accurate quarterly data and narrative reporting to the Service Manager – Schools and Borough Lead.

Work with partners:

• Be co-located in Islington’s Targeted Youth Support Team, working in partnership with colleagues to identify and support girls and young women;
• Deliver 8-10 practice sessions to Islington colleagues and professionals in order to increase capacity across the borough and support their efforts to work more effectively with young women and girls;
• Deliver case consultations to Islington professionals and colleagues on an ad-hoc basis, upskilling across case specific issues arising when working with young women and girls;
• Work in partnership with schools and community settings to offer and deliver the service and reach girls and young women;
• Represent Abianda in Islington partnerships with statutory and non-statutory services and community groups and other forms to share good practice, identity themes, develop ideas and work collaboratively to improve outcomes for young people including girls and young women;
• Ad-hoc upskilling of partners through role modelling best practice when addressing specific issues arising when working with young women and girls;
• Deliver training and public speaking events to professionals on an ad-hoc basis, working alongside Abianda Consultants and Interns, disseminating practice knowledge and experience to a national audience.

Work with Abianda:

• Participate in whole team practice, case file sessions and team meetings;
• Be involved in policy and strategy development days;
• Where needed, work with the Participation Team to ensure that young women’s voices are embedded in the activities and developments of your service area;
• Encourage a culture of equality, participation and excellence when responding to safeguarding issues and practice;
• You will maintain monitoring, evaluation an reporting requirements of the project, so that partner and funder questions are answered accurately and on time;
• You will maintain accurate project case files in a timely fashion;
• Respond to quality assurance and progress monitoring requirements, contributing to Abianda’s quality assurance standards.
• Participate in monthly supervision and quarterly professional development and performance reviews with your line manager;
• Engage in monthly clinical supervision to support wellbeing and a reflective practice.

Person Specification:
Essential skills/experience:

• Experience of one-to-one and/ or group work with young women and girls with complex neds and a history of non-engagement – perhaps you have worked with young women who have experienced violence against women and girls, mental ill-health, trauma and/ or who perpetrate violence and crime;
• To have a working knowledge of local authority child protection procedures and contextual safeguarding, and be able to attend and contribute to these processes effectively when required to do so;
• Experience in responding to risk, safeguarding and child protection issues in the unique context of gangs;
• Experience of advocating on behalf of young people ad navigating statutory safeguarding an policing processes;
• A commitment to our equalities framework and an understanding of the intersectional nature of social identity and how this impacts staff and service users;
• A proactive nature, a willingness to ‘go an extra mile,’ and a curiosity to understand the lives and experiences of young women;
• A willingness to take on Abianda’s unique model of practice to support the engagement of young women;
• Excellent communication skills and organisation skills, so that you can maintain accurate case files on time;
• Open to travel to different locations across London to meet and support young women;
• A strong values match with our principles – we believe that:
• Young women are experts on their own lives
• People affected by a problem are best placed to find the solutions

Due to the work taken part in, Abianda's roles are subject to an Occupational Requirement on the grounds of the protected characteristic of sex. Abianda is a women's only employer, and as such this position is exempt under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010. For the avoidance of doubt, all women including trans women are welcome to apply for and hold such roles, as are non-binary people if the applicant believes that their lived experience aligns with that of women and girls.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

We encourage applications from people from all walks of life, including those who may have had exposure to similar experiences that young women across London are facing including experience of the criminal justice system.

Applications are anonymised before they are shared with the recruitment panel to reduce any unconscious bias.