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Job reference REQ14138
Application closing date 09/07/2023
Location Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Senior Residential Practitioner Looked After Children - Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Children and Young Peoples Services
Salary details:£31,099 to £33,820& excellent benefits (pay award pending)
The posts are supported by 12 month DfE Innovation funding. Following the innovation project, learning and posts will be imbedded within residential and short break service.
Closing date 9th July 2023
Shortlisting date 11th July 2023
Interview date 19th July 2023
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
Are you an experienced, solution oriented, systemic working, child focused practitioner, keen to work alongside partners and particularly our children and young people to deliver a new model of community based short breaks in Rotherham? This post could be for you
Following a successful short breaks innovation fund bid through the Department for Education our Children and Young Peoples Service are now recruiting for Childrens Senior Residential/Short Breaks Practitioners.
These new posts will play a key role in the delivery of a range of in-house and community-based provision for Rotherham looked after children.
Rotherham Council has made a strategic decision to make a significant investment in childrens residential services. This will ensure more of our children are placed in Rotherham, close to their local communities, family and schools.
This innovative new service will be based within Rotherhams existing short breaks service (Liberty House) and will provide intensive community based short breaks to some of our most complex children and young people.
We are particularly looking for Senior Practitioners who have previous experience of working in a short break setting and with young people with complex needs and disabilities but also have transferable skills that would suit a residential setting.
This new initiative will be part of a Children and Young People Service judged as `Good` by Ofsted in August 2022 and build on practice from our Short Break Service currently judged as `Outstanding`.
Childrens Senior Short Break Residential Practitioners in Rotherham will:
Promote, safeguard, and protect the welfare of looked after children across the borough.
Apply agreed evidence based therapeutic and behavioural management approaches and practice models.
Provide opportunities for children and young people to influence the decisions that affect them and the service they receive.
Work systemically and as part of team to ensure a joined-up service centred on the child.
Manage and adapt rota arrangements to ensure that children and young people have safe levels of support.
Support the management of staff groups providing supervision, training, and inductions for new staff.
Engage in the running of the home including activities, meals, personal care, recording, report writing and administration of medication in line with the councils policy.
Participate in and audit the completion of relevant records and reports.
Provide and promote a safe, stimulating and nurturing physical environment.
Key benefits of working at Rotherham Councils Children and Young Peoples service are:
Strong support and clear direction from Managers.
Extensive training programme, to develop and professionalise our residential practitioners. This includes the Rotherham Family Approach incorporating Signs of Safety and Restorative Practice.
Residential services that have access to and work closely with our high quality in house therapeutic service.
Innovative Edge of Care Services and a strong Early Help offer which is reducing demand and supporting professionals to think systemically and develop creative options to support children and young people.
The prioritisation of Looked After Children for CAMHS assessment and intervention.
The opportunity to make a real difference to the children, young people, and families.
Investment in you as a senior practitioner involving support, supervision, training and opportunity for professional development and progression.
Local Authority pension and 30 days annual leave to be taken in line with the agreed weekend annual leave allocation as detailed in employer handbook.
About you:
We are seeking inspirational, resilient and child focused senior practitioners who are committed to:
Developing their skills and practices in order to provide an outstanding residential service to children and young people.
Supporting and caring for some of our most complex children and young people, at times in solo provision.
Working evening, weekend and sleep in shifts as part of the residential team.
Promoting and being part of a learning and coaching culture.
Our vision is for the children and families of Rotherham to routinely experience and describe the services they receive from us, as outstanding and we intend to do that by putting the child first in everything we do.
By being part of our residential teams, you will play a crucial role in developing our collective commitment to an ethos of excellence, integrity, trust and transparency. Joining us at a time of change with regard to developing our provision provides you an opportunity to be involved and influence the service design and development of practice in line with best practice and evidence-based approaches.
About Yorkshire
Rotherham and the wider South Yorkshire region is a great place to live and a stones throw from some of the UKs finest towns and cities and is home to some of the most beautiful countryside in Britain. Easy to reach from Sheffield or Leeds, there are plenty of places to see, things to do and property is excellent value for money - all within a 2-hour train journey from London.
If you have any questions regarding these opportunities and or would like a conversation about these new roles, please emailrichard.fisher@rotherham.gov.uk
This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found atwww.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. For further information, please visit ourwebsite.
From 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2024 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a weekly / monthly deduction (dependent on pay frequency) from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded of three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).
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