Residential Emergency Response Practitioners Looked After Children - Rotherham, United Kingdom - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Description

Job summary

The post holder will provide high quality care and interventions to children and young people in a variety of settings including residential homes, emergency accommodation, family home and foster placements, which will contribute to the protection, safeguarding and promotion of the education, health and well-being of children and young people.

This role is specifically to work within our emergency response team; therefore the post holder will need to work in a flexible way, which will include working across services, often supporting children in crisis.

Main duties of the job

You should have:-

Experience of working in a service or provision designed to support children and young people with complex needs, such as difficulties in regulating their emotions and behaviours due to past experiences.

Experience of working directly with children and families in a multi-agency setting and knowledge of the roles of other agencies and professionals

Knowledge of child development and the impact of early childhood traumaDate

Knowledge and experience of developing, implementing, and reviewing individual programmes of care.

Knowledge of Childrens Homes Regulations and Safeguarding frameworks

Practical knowledge of working / dealing with difficult situations in a diplomatic, sensitive and caring professional manner and knowledge of professional boundaries and safe working practices which contribute to managing risk.

About us

This is an excellent time to workwithin Rotherham. We are passionate about the place and the people who live,work and visit here. We are delivering major regeneration and housing, as wellas creating new jobs and opportunities for our residents. Rotherham is a real'central UK' location with excellent road and rail links and is ideally placednear the scenic countryside of the Peak District, whilst also beingconveniently located next to the vibrant city of Sheffield.

Our vision for Rotherham is thatwe come together as a community, where we seek to draw on our proud history tobuild a future we can all share. We respect decency, dignity and seek to builda town where opportunity is extended to everyone, where people can grow, flourishand prosper, and where no one is left behind.

We offer an excellent pay andbenefits package which includes membership of the Local Government PensionScheme, as well as a range of health and wellbeing and other benefits.

Job responsibilities

Job reference REQ16898

Directorate: Children and Young Peoples Services

Residential Emergency Response Practitioners Looked After Children

Salary £29,777 - £32,076 pro rata (pay award pending) & excellent benefits

Permanent, hours part-time postavailable

Location Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham CouncilChildren and Young Peoples Service. For more information about RotherhamSocial Care jobs, please visit: Residential Recruitment RotherhamMetropolitan Borough Council.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Are you an experienced, solution oriented, systemicworking, child focused practitioner, keen to work alongside partners andparticularly our children and young people to deliver a new model ofresidential intervention in Rotherham? This post could be for you

The posts will play a key role in the delivery of thevision we have around our edge of care and residential service. We are lookingfor practitioners who are skilled in working with children and their familiesin emergency situations, where an entry into care looks like the next step. Theemergency residential settings and staffing are focused on working alongside the Team around the childin a proactive way and playing a key role in intensive support packages as partof the residential team and or in the community with families. We are seekingdynamic, solution focused practitioners, who enjoy working with children andtheir families to achieve success and who want to work alongside our innovativeedge of care model.

Rotherham Council has made a strategic decision to make asignificant investment in children's residential services. This will ensuremore of our looked after children are placed in Rotherham, close to their localcommunities, family and schools.

We are using current best practice and evidence-basedmodels 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 complexchildren and young people.

We are particularly looking for practitioners who haveprevious experience of working in specialist solo provision, mental healthresidential settings, crisis accommodation and with children and young peoplewith sensory, ASD, mental health needs and who have suffered significant trauma.For the emergency settings we are looking for practitioners who worksystemically and have experience of working with the whole family approach.

This new residential provision will be part of aChildren and Young People Service judged as `Good` by Ofsted in August 2022 andbuild on practice from our short break residential home provision.

Children's Residential Practitioners in Rotherham will:

Promote, safeguard and protect the welfare of looked afterchildren across the borough

Key work individual children and young people, buildingeffective relationships, being a positive role model and providing consistencyof support

Apply agreed evidence based therapeutic and behaviouralmanagement approaches and practice models

Provide opportunities for children and young people toinfluence the decisions that affect them and the service they receive

Work systemically and as part of team to ensure a joined-upservice centred on the child

Engage in the running of the home including activities,meals, personal care, recording, report writing and administration ofmedication in line with the councils policy

Undertake staff training, attend staff meetings and formalsupervision sessions

Provide and promote a safe, stimulating and nurturingphysical environment

Hold a full valid UK driving licence.

Ability to transport children and young people to and from school/activities

Key benefits of working at Rotherham Councils Children andYoung Peoples service are:

Strong support and clear direction from Managers

Extensive training programme, to develop andprofessionalise our residential practitioners. This includes the RotherhamFamily Approach incorporating Signs of Safety and Restorative Practice

Residential services that have access to and work closelywith our high quality in house therapeutic service

Innovative Edge of Care Services and a strong Early Helpoffer which is reducing demand and supporting professionals to thinksystemically and develop creative options to support children and young people

The prioritisation of Looked After Children for CAMHSassessment and intervention, with a bespoke Rotherham Therapeutic Team workingclosely 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 andprogression.

Local Authority pension and 29 days annual leave (30 daysfrom April 2023), to be taken in line with the agreed weekend annual leaveallocation as detailed in employer handbook.

About you

We are seeking inspirational, resilient and child focusedpractitioners who are committed to:

Developing their skills and practices in order to providean outstanding residential service to children and young people

Supporting and caring for some of our most complex childrenand young people, at times in solo provision

Working evening, weekend and sleep in shifts as part of theresidential team

Our vision is for the children and families of Rotherham toroutinely experience and describe the services they receive from us, asoutstanding and we intend to do that by putting the child first in everythingwe do.

By being part of our residential service, you will play acrucial role in developing our collective commitment to an ethos of excellence,integrity, trust and transparency. You will also be joining us at a time ofchange as we continue to develop our provision, providing you with anopportunity to be involved and influence the service design and development ofpractice in line with best practice and evidence-based approaches.

About Yorkshire

Rotherham and the wider South Yorkshire region is a greatplace to live and a stones throw from some of the UKs finest towns andcities, and is home to some of the most beautiful countryside in Britain. Easyto reach from Sheffield or Leeds, there are plenty of places to see, things todo and property is excellent value for money - all within a 2 hour trainjourney from London.

Please state clearly on your application form which post(s)you wish to apply for.

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These posts involve working with children and therefore ifsuccessful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal recordscheck at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme canbe found at

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed tosafeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerableadults.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed toencouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, andeliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be trulyrepresentative of all sections of society and our customers, and for eachemployee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a DisabilityConfident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number ofdisabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will beoffered an further information, please visit our website.

Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of spread out by means of a monthly deduction 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 three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time)

Confirmation of this appointment is also subject to amedical assessment.

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Experience

Essential

Qualifications

Essential