• Are you passionate about Participatory practice for young people?
• Can you reach and engage girls and young women who are involved in or affected by criminal exploitation and violence?
• Do you have experience providing education, training and employment (ETE) opportunities for young people?
• Have you got what it takes to go the extra mile for young women and hold hope that life for them can be different?

We are looking for a Participation Practitioner (Education, Training and Employment Specialist) to join our Participation team. This is an exciting new role where you will be a key member of the team working directly with young women and girls to bring about systems change for those affected by criminal exploitation and violence, ensuring that young women’s voices are at the heart of decision-making and change.

With your colleagues, you will create and deliver group work sessions, in addition to our 10-day leadership and development programme Elevate and support the success of our Young Women’s Advisory Group (YWAG)  using Abianda’s unique model of practice. You will have a specific responsibility for developing key external partnerships, in support of providing education, training and employment (ETE) opportunities to all young women who are engaging with the Participation team. The role is also responsible for providing pastoral support and rights-based, person-centred advocacy for young women and girls affected by or at risk of criminal exploitation.

Details of the role:

• Salary: £30,006 per annum, plus pension (reviewed annually)
• Full-time (35 hours per week)
• Fixed-term contract until December 2025 (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, N5) and some working from home
• We can offer flexible working arrangements
• Monthly clinical supervision with a skilled and experienced psychotherapist
• Abianda understands the importance of investing in staff and offers a training and development budget for all our employees

Please read the full job description here. 

To apply please download and complete our equal opportunities form (this is optional).  Email [email protected] with your CV along with a supporting statement outlining the following:​

●       Your reasons for wanting to work with Abianda

●       Examples of how you meet the person specification​

You can complete the supporting statement in 1 of 4 different ways:

●       Word document (no more than 2 sides of A4)

●       Powerpoint slides (no more than 5 slides)

●       Audio recording (no more than 5 mins)

●       Video recording (no more than 5 mins)

We will be accepting applications and booking interviews on a rolling basis. Please apply as soon as possible if you are interested in the role, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early. The deadline for completed applications is 11.59 pm Wednesday 7 February.

Abianda is a Disability Confident employer. A disabled candidate who meets all of the essential requirements of the role is guaranteed an interview. 

If you need any recruitment information in another format to be more accessible to you or would like to have an informal conversation about the role, please contact Sam at [email protected]. Sam is not on the recruitment panel and your conversation with them will not affect your application should you choose to apply. 

All applicants are requested to complete a criminal record self-disclosure form at the interview stage. We value and welcome the lived experience of our applicants and all disclosures will be fairly and sensitively reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

​Please note 

• Due to the work we do, Abianda’s roles are subject to an Occupational Requirement on the grounds of the protected characteristic of sex. We are 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 bias.