Childrens Services Practitioner

Salary: £23,500 per annum, pro rata

Location: Dumfries and Galloway

Contract/Hours: Permanent / Part Time – 20 hours per week (Monday to Thursday - flexible to meet the needs of the families, there is scope for additional hours)

Interviews are due to be held on 21st and 22nd October

Benefits:

· 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave

· Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities

· Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages

· Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover

· Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

A bit about the role

We employ a comprehensive system of whole-family support, which focuses on building intensive relationships and providing robust support to enhance the wellbeing of the families we engage with. This holistic approach aims to stabilise families, helping them to overcome their challenges and ultimately live happier, more fulfilling lives together.

By strengthening family bonds and relationships, we can significantly reduce the risk of children being placed into care. Our goal is to ensure that children who were previously on the verge of entering the care system can remain in their homes, surrounded by their loved ones.

Our work extends to every member of the family, ensuring that all children in the household receive the care and attention they need. Additionally, we collaborate with other significant members of the household when we believe their involvement will contribute positively to the family’s overall wellbeing.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

Some key responsibilities of a Childrens Services Practitioner role are;

· Managing a caseload of families.

· Planning, preparing and delivering group sessions.

· Providing children, young people and families intensive 1:1 support.

· Working intensively with those affected by domestic violence.

· Signposting service users to other services, depending on their needs.

· Working with children and young people to improve their attainment at school.

· Supporting children, young people and families in their own home or school as well as at the service..

Let's talk about you

· Working within a multi-agency social care, early years or health environment and applying safeguarding procedures

· Experience of managing cases, in accordance with agreed procedures and completing assessments,

planning and reviews to ensure positive outcomes

· Ability to keep the child and or young people as the focus and ensure their feelings and wishes are

represented in meetings and record keeping

· Ability to communicate effectively and engagingly and to maintain independent professional

relationships, boundaries

· Working knowledge of an outcome based approach to planning, delivering and reviewing services.

Good to know 

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.