Children and Young People’s Practitioner (Residential Setting)

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Children and Young People’s Practitioner to work full-time in a residential setting. The salary for this permanent position starts at £26,400 per annum and offers a £1000 bonus upon completion of your Level 4 Children and Young People’s Workforce diploma which they will sponsor. Once you have completed this qualification, your salary will increase to £29,000 per annum. 

Rota: 36 hours per week, shift work. 

Once enrolled on the Diploma: 32 hours casework per week, 4 hours study time per week.

Main duties:

• Through lone and group working, you will build warm, trusting, and boundaried relationships with young women, delivering personalised 1:1 support that meet the young women’s needs, as recorded in relevant plans, and support them to fulfil their potential.
• You will be helping the service users to express their views, wishes and feelings and to lead healthy lifestyles and make measurable progress towards achieving their educational potential.
• Working collaboratively to deliver a minimum of 3 x 1:1 support session for each young person each week (including a sports, culture, and arts activity).
• 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.
• Take effective action whenever there is a worry or serious concern about a young person’s or child’s welfare.
• Maintain regular contact with education and training providers to maximise the young person’s achievement, attainment, and attendance.

Requirements:

• Experience of dealing directly with young people, the public and/or Social Care in a busy service environment.
• Experience of managing a caseload and/or dealing with difficult situations in relation to supporting young people.
• Good understanding of some tools, techniques and resources that can be used to support young people in areas including: CSE, DV, EET, life and self-care skills.
• Familiarity with MS Office applications and basic keyboard skills.

Benefits:

• Great opportunities for career progression
• Travel to work
• Pension
• Staff Wellbeing Fund