Senior Practitioner - Residential Childcare (Part-Time)

Job Description

This is a part-time post the salary will be pro-rata'd to the hours worked.

Our service supports young people who are unable to live with their families, providing a safe, nurturing and stable home where they can feel loved, safe and respected. We are committed to delivering high-quality, trauma-informed, relationship-based and strengths-focused care, helping young people to recover, grow, and achieve positive outcomes. If this is the values you hold please apply.  

As Senior Practitioner, you will play a key leadership role within the house, supporting the delivery of high professional standards and helping to create a warm, consistent and caring environment for young people. You will lead and motivate the staff team, contribute to effective service delivery, and ensure that young people’s individual needs, rights and wellbeing remain at the centre of practice.

Requirements

This post is considered a Regulated Role with Children and Adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2020 and as such membership with the PVG scheme is essential. Further details of this scheme can be found here.

Preferred applicants will be required to become members of the relevant PVG scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer being made by West Dunbartonshire Council.

Responsibilities

The employment for which you are applying is excepted from the provisions of section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applicants are, therefore, not statutorily entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are "spent" under the provisions of the Act. In the event of employment any failure to disclose such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action.

The Individual

WDC was voted one of the top ten flexible employers and prides itself in providing flexible working to support work life balance. In addition to this there are also additional benefits:

• Access to the Local Government pension scheme (LGPS) with an employer’s contribution of at least 19.3% and all associated benefits
• A minimum of 25 days annual leave, increasing a day each year up to 35 days as well as 8 fixed public holidays each year
• Access to employee wellbeing supports including occupational health & counselling if ever you need help and support

Now that you have read the role and what we have to offer, we would love to hear from you. Please use the application to tell us your experience, and why you are the candidate for this role.

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