Family Residential Worker As and When - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Barnardos

Barnardos

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Leicestershire, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to be part of shaping a brand new innovative residential support service for families, children, and young people in Leicestershire?

Can you achieve transformational change for families and children who have a range of complex needs?

If you're passionate about the children and families in your care and can show understanding, tenacity, and consistency of care - this may be the opportunity for you

Service Overview
One of these properties will be regulated for use as a Family Residential Centre.

A Family Residential Centre (also known as a Parent-Child Residential Placement) is an establishment that provides residential placements for parents and their children tomonitor and assess the parents' ability to respond to their children's needs and to safeguard and promote their children's welfare whilst this assessment is being completed.

Supplementary Information

What Barnardo's can offer:

Employee Assistance Programme
Excellent training and development opportunities including 3 day learning
Flexible working home work life balance
Outstanding leadership support

Initial Location of Post
Market Harborough

Must be able to travel throughout the Locality to meet the requirements of the role.

Objectives of the Leicestershire Family Residential Centre:

Children and Families Services have identified the need to provide increasing numbers of placements for parents and their children to assess parenting capacity where the courts have directed this.

Families utilising this type of service may include parents with moderate to high learning needs, those presenting with issues around domestic violence, and or substance /alcohol misuse.

Additionally, they may have experienced mental ill health and/or trauma.

There have been limited family residential placements available in the local region.

This new provision will allow for families to have a placement local to their communities, improving outcomes for the families and children.

This provision will take a therapeutic needs-based approach to ensure that the support to each child and family receives is the most appropriate to their specific needs.

This provision will focus on the following principles intended to improve outcomes:

Self

- contained family flats as part of a safe and structured living environment

Residential workers who are warm and responsive
Tailored support, role modelling and mentoring to support parenting with a focus on children's behaviour, attachment, family relationships and children's development
Therapeutic support and relationships
Traumainformed approaches

Previous Applicants need not apply.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.

We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent,hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which should be in place by 1st April 2023.

This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & CultureStrategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's.

WORKPLACE OFFER:

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU
The world of work has changed.

We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working.

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand ourworkplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations.

This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

Flexibility

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through.

Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment processfor this role.