Job responsibilities
Job referenceREQ16224
Directorate: Children and Young Peoples Services
Residential Practitioner (Emergency Response)
Salary£29,777 - £32,076 pro rata & excellent benefits
Permanent, full time, 37 hours and 18.5 hours part-time post
available
LocationRotherham, South Yorkshire
Rotherham Council are currently setting up homes and have a
variety of opportunities to work in the residential settings and across the
Rotherham Community depending on presenting need.
Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council
Children and Young Peoples Service. For more information about Rotherham
Social Care jobs, please visit: Residential Recruitment Rotherham
Metropolitan Borough Council.
We are also open to supporting different working patterns.
Please contact us for a discussion if this is an option which interest you.
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
residential intervention in Rotherham? This post could be for you
The posts will play a key role in the delivery of the
vision we have around our edge of care and residential service. We are looking
for practitioners who are skilled in working with children and their families
in emergency situations, where an entry into care looks like the next step. The
emergency residential settings and staffing are focused on working alongside the Team around the child
in a proactive way and playing a key role in intensive support packages as part
of the residential team and or in the community with families. We are seeking
dynamic, solution focused practitioners, who enjoy working with children and
their families to achieve success and who want to work alongside our innovative
edge of care model.
Rotherham Council has made a strategic decision to make a
significant investment in childrens residential services. This will ensure
more of our looked after children are placed in Rotherham, close to their local
communities, family and schools.
We are using current best practice and evidence-based
models to develop a range of new children`s homes including 2 and 4 bed EBD,
emergency accommodation and solo provision for some of our most complex
children and young people.
We are particularly looking for practitioners who have
previous experience of working in specialist solo provision, mental health
residential settings, crisis accommodation and with children and young people
with sensory, ASD, mental health needs and who have suffered significant trauma.
For the emergency settings we are looking for practitioners who work
systemically and have experience of working with the whole family approach.
This new residential provision will be part of a Children
and Young People Service judged as `Good` by Ofsted in August 2022. We already
have our short break residential home judged as `Outstanding` in February 2020
and our first newly opened step down home, rated as Good in May 2021.
Childrens Residential Practitioners in Rotherham will:
Promote, safeguard and protect the welfare of looked after
children across the borough
Key work individual children and young people, building
effective relationships, being a positive role model and providing consistency
of support
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
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
Undertake staff training, attend staff meetings and formal
supervision sessions
Provide and promote a safe, stimulating and nurturing
physical environment
Hold a full valid UK driving licence.
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, with a bespoke Rotherham Therapeutic Team working
closely with each setting.
The opportunity to make a real difference to the children,
young people and families
Investment in you as a practitioner involving support,
supervision, training and opportunity for professional development and
progression.
Local Authority pension and 29 days annual leave (30 days
from April 2023), 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
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
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 service, you will play a
crucial role in developing our collective commitment to an ethos of excellence,
integrity, trust and transparency. You will also be joining us at a time of
change as we continue to develop our provision, providing you with 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.
Please state clearly on your application form which post(s)
you wish to apply for.
If you have any questions regarding these opportunities and
or would like a conversation about these new roles please email
simon.breeds@rotherham.gov.uk
These posts involve 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 at www.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. As a Disability
Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of
disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be
offered an interview.For further information, please visit our website.
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).
Confirmation of this appointment is also subject to a
medical assessment.
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