Child Practitioner: Relationship-Based Family Support

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Oxford; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxfordshire County Council's Children's Services is recruiting a Child Practitioner to work with children, young people and families using a strengths-based, relationship-focused approach within the Family Safeguarding Practice framework. You will deliver practical support, assessments and targeted interventions to promote safer, more resilient outcomes.

You will collaborate with social workers and partner agencies, ensuring the child's voice remains central in plans and reviews, and contribute

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children and families in a safeguarding context.
• Ability to contribute to assessments and care planning.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• To provide an efficient and effective service to children, young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally supported, and that relevant interventions are provided where needed, in a timely way.
• To work with families using the FSP Workbook modules, and a strengths-based approach.
• To prepare and submit written reports as and when required
• To attend reviews and core groups presenting interventions undertaken clearly, with professionalism and integrity.
• To ensure the social worker is kept fully appraised of significant information about allocated families arising, seeking advice as and when necessary.
• To attend group supervision when required and to ensure that relevant updates are provided before each group supervision session.
• To proactively liaise with and work in partnership other agencies and organisations, parents and carers.
• To ensure that the childs voice is considered in all casework and included in all assessments and plans.
• To promote the involvement of young service users and families in meetings about them, and where possible, in service development

Skills

Intervention skills

Family engagement

Report writing

Collaboration

Job description

Oxfordshire County Council's Children's Services is recruiting a Child Practitioner to work with children, young people and families using a strengths-based, relationship-focused approach within the Family Safeguarding Practice framework. You will deliver practical support, assessments and targeted interventions to promote safer, more resilient outcomes.

You will collaborate with social workers and partner agencies, ensuring the child's voice remains central in plans and reviews, and contribute