Senior Practice Lead - Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom - Cheshire West & Chester

Cheshire West & Chester

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Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom

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Tom O´Connor

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Senior Practice Lead - Intervention Hub:

We are seeking to appoint a skilled, motivated and committed Senior Practice Lead - Interventions to join our highly innovative and successful Intervention Hub.

The Intervention Hub is an award-winning service offering quality support and intervention to children and their families across the borough of Cheshire West and Chester.

Organisation

Cheshire West and Chester Council

Location

Ellesmere Port

Job Category

Children and Young People Services

Grade

CWAC NJC
Grade 9

Salary Min
- £35,745

Salary Max
- £39,186

Hours per week

Weeks per year

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

08/01/2024

Ref No

W3092

Cheshire West and Chester Council brings a fresh and energetic approach to providing top quality services for its many customers and communities.

West Cheshire is a place where everyone can Thrive - through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Practice Lead to join the Intervention Hub.

The post will be based at the Portal, Ellesmere Port but primarily working within the Family Time Service providing relevant and high-quality family time for our care experienced children.

The Intervention Hub offers a locality wide support and intervention service to children known to Children's Social Care and requiring the support of Child in Need, Child Protection or Looked After Child planning.

Within this role you will be expected to travel across the borough between the Ellesmere Port/Neston, Chester and Northwich/Winsford districts within this role.

As a Senior Practice Lead you will join an organisation where the focus is on achieving the best outcomes for the children and families who we work with.

The Intervention Hub strives to have purposeful relationships where all our interventions can truly bring about change and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.

The role of Senior Practice Lead - Interventions will require you to provide high-quality safeguarding supervision, manage a small team of workers from within the Intervention Hub, co-ordinate the delivery of group work and take a lead role in the developmental of all team members.

You should be skilled in the delivery of evidenced based interventions and have an excellent understanding of what works to effect long-term positive change to improve the welfare and life experiences of children, young people and their families.

You will work alongside social work teams to ensure the functioning of the Intervention Hub is meeting the needs of children and their families, be up to date with social work themes and practice and be a confident, experienced and skilled practitioner.

Our Children's Social Care workforce is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for children in our Authority by providing a consistent, high-quality service to children and families; together with the support from excellent leadership and management.

It is an exciting time to join Cheshire West and Chester.

We are very proud that Ofsted have rated us as one of the top performing Children's Services in the country; receiving overall "good" in our 2015 inspection and retaining "good" in our most recent inspection in 2019.

OFSTED has acknowledged that our children benefit from a stable and resilient workforce. We are approved as a Partner in Practice with the Department of Education and won
"Overall council of the Year" and
"Best Innovation" awards in 2018. We have developed and embedded 'Our Ways of Working' with our multi-agency partners in order to ensure improved collaboration and one common approach to practice utilising Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Practice. Our teams are encouraged to work creatively in planning and decision-making with children and their families in order to achieve positive outcomes and with a focus on prevention at every level.

As a local authority, we have developed an inspirational offer to support and develop our valued workforce, including;
- high quality progression and developmental opportunities
- free parking at all our office locations
- work-life balance, flexible and remote working arrangements available, including up to date IT equipment, and a smart mobile phone for all employees
- competitive working rewards
- high quality supervision
- strong reflective practice framework

As employers, we recognise that Cheshire West and Chester Council has a major role to play in improving the quality of life of its employees.

We are committed to agile flexible and mobile working and helping employees to maintain an effective balance between their work and home life.

You will also have access to a range of benefits including:

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Competitive salary:

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Annual Leave - You will receive 25 days annual leave per annum rising to 31 days after five years con