We are seeking a full time SHiFT Guide for our new Bexley SHiFT Practice. SHiFT Guides are highly skilled and experienced in working with children and young people, are exceptional communicators, and bring energy and drive to provide exceptional services to children and young people. Guides are resilient, highly autonomous, and flexible, working confidently and dynamically in fast-moving and/or uncertain contexts. The Bexley SHiFT Practice is a collaboration between SHiFT Organisation ltd (a registered Charity) and Children’s Services at the London Borough of Bexley. SHiFT exists to break the destructive cycle of children caught up in, or at risk of, crime and associated behaviour.
The SHiFT Practice will work with children and young people up to the age of 25 for whom things are getting worse, not better, and who would benefit most from an intense, therapeutic relationship. SHiFT offers children an intensive (at least 18 month), needs and strengths-led, therapeutic relationship. Investing time enables SHiFT to create trust, build stability and provide consistency.
Working as highly skilled, multidisciplinary teams of professionals, SHiFT gets alongside young people who are among the most vulnerable and causing the most harm to themselves and others. We start from wherever a young person is, working systemically with them, their family, friends, and community (including all statutory professionals in their lives) to develop high trust, culturally competent and strengths-driven relationships that catalyse pro-social change.