Children and Young People Practitioner – Nights

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Residential Child Care Nights Worker within a children’s homes to work full time based in Lambeth, London

The salary for this permanent Residential Support Night Worker job is up to £29,000 per annum.

Main duties:

• Complete and/or coordinate all assessments with young people: Risk Assessments; Safety Plans; LA and Health Assessments; My Mind Outcomes Star Assessment and Action Planning
• Plan, prioritise and deliver support sessions each week – ensuring the frequency and focus of sessions meet the needs of the young person, reflect the packages commissioned by LAs, and take place as planned
• Complete weekly progress reports setting out plans and priorities agreed, sessions delivered, key outcomes, actions to be taken, other relevant contacts and observations
• Complete reports on incidents and accidents, setting out: effective action taken and planned; actions for the professional network; and past trends
• Seek advice/guidance when appropriate, and provide relevant feedback and debriefing opportunities to management, team members and key professionals
• Strive to gain a positive and empowering relationships with all young residents at the home, offering natural rapport, respect, genuine empathy, curiosity, and positive regard
• Ensure that all young people are enabled to provide feedback about the support and services they receive at the home
• Regularly consult young people, seek their feedback about the quality of care and support at the home
• Help each young person to understand how their privacy will be respected and the circumstances when it may have to be limited
• Help each young person prepare for any review of the young person’s plans and to make the young person’s views, wishes and feeling known for the purposes of that review

Requirements of this job:

• Desirable to have the 4 Children, Young Person and Family Practitioner (or equivalent) qualification or willingness to complete
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• An understanding of the needs of looked after young people
• Knowledge of relevant regulations, legislation and statutory guidance
• An understanding of intervention strategies

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.