Residential Practitioners - Rotherham, United Kingdom - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

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Children's Emergency Residential Practitioners - Looked After Children - Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Children and Young People's Services

Permanent full-time and part-time posts available

Post One: 37 hours per week

Post Two: 18.5 hours per week**
Salary details: £27,852 - £30,151 (37
hours per week)

£13,926 - £15, hours per week)

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

Closing date: 29th
January 2023

Shortlisting: 31st
January 2023

Assessment Centre: 8th
February 2023

Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council Children and Young People's Service.

For more information about Rotherham Social Care jobs, please visit:
Residential Recruitment - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council**
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

Following Cabinet approval, our Children and Young People's Service are now recruiting for Children's Residential Practitioners.

These new 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 children's 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 January 2018.

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.

Children's 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

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 council's policy.

Undertake staff training, attend staff meetings and formal supervision sessions.

Provide and promote a safe, stimulating and nurturing physical environment.

Key benefits of working at Rotherham Council's Children and Young People's 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 cl