Children's Practitioner - Didcot

NHS; East Hagbourne; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in East Hagbourne seeks a dedicated Children's Practitioner to join their Family Safeguarding & Support team. In this role, you will manage a caseload, utilising strengths-based approaches to deliver effective interventions for children, young people, and families. You will need relevant experience and an understanding of safeguarding and its principles. The position offers a range of employee benefits, including a comprehensive pension scheme and learning opportunities.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Local Government Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Family friendly policies

Childcare vouchers

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Relevant experience of working with children, young people, or families.
• Understanding the impact of abuse and social deprivation on families.
• Knowledge of safeguarding principles.
• Ability to assess and create outcome-driven plans.

Responsibilities

• Deliver efficient and effective services to children and families.
• Utilise strengths-based approaches for interventions.
• Prepare and submit reports as required.
• Present interventions clearly during reviews.
• Keep social worker informed of significant information.

Skills

Kind and caring

Understanding of individuals' qualities

Advocating for equality

Continuous learning

Responsibility and accountability

Job description

About the RoleWe are looking for a dedicated Children's Practitioner to join our Family Safeguarding & Support (FSS) team and deliver exceptional service to children, young people, and families.In this role, you will manage a caseload aligned with your experience and capabilities, ensuring the voices of those you support are heard. Utilising the FSS Workbook modules and employing a strengths-based approach, you will implement timely and effective interventions to meet their needs.If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

About the RoleWe are looking for a dedicated Children's Practitioner to join our Family Safeguarding & Support (FSS) team and deliver exceptional service to children, young people, and families.In this role, you will manage a caseload aligned with your experience and capabilities, ensuring the voices of those you support are heard. Utilising the FSS Workbook modules and employing a strengths-based approach, you will implement timely and effective interventions to meet their needs.If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you!

About us

About UsWorking together to help Children, young people, and families to thrive.Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which will enable us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice. Were seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of daring to do it differently, as we continue to strive to do better.In our Children, Education, & Families Directorate, we do our very best to help children, young people, and families to thrive. We know the importance of building relationships, empowering people, and building on strengths and this is reflected in our restorative, relational practice approach.Weve been consistently rated as good by Ofsted, but we are not content with that; we are ambitious and want to do even better! Oxfordshire County Council is a financially stable local authority which is committed to investing in Children, Education, and Families, to ensure that we have the resources we need to make a real difference to the families we work with.This includes the successful operation of our transformational model Family Safeguarding & Support.

Job responsibilities

About Us

Workingtogetherto help Children, young people, and families to thrive.

Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the FutureTogether, ourambitioustransformation programme which will enable us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice.Were seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of daring to do it differently, as we continue to strive to do better.

In our Children, Education, & Families Directorate, we do our very best to help children, young people, and families to thrive. We know the importance of building relationships, empowering people, and building on strengths and this is reflected in our restorative, relational practice approach.

Weve been consistently rated as good by Ofsted, but we are not content with that; we areambitiousand want to do even better!Oxfordshire County Council is a financially stable local authority which iscommittedto investing in Children, Education, and Families, to ensure that we have the resources we need to make a real difference to the families we work with.

This includes the successful operation of our transformational model Family Safeguarding &Support.

About the Role

We are looking for a dedicated Children's Practitioner to join our Family Safeguarding &Support(FSS) team and deliver exceptional service to children, young people, and families.

In this role, you will manage a caseload aligned with your experience and capabilities, ensuring the voices of those yousupportare heard.Utilising the FSS Workbook modules and employing a strengths-based approach, you will implement timely and effective interventions to meet their needs.

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you!

As part of our team, you will:

• Deliver efficient and effective services to children, young people, and their families.
• Utilise the FSS Workbook modules and a strengths-based approach.
• Prepare and submit written reports as required.
• Attend reviews and core groups, presenting interventions clearly and professionally.
• Keep the social worker fully informed of significant information about allocated families, seeking advice as needed.

About you

We would like to hear from you if you are

• Kind and caring, with an understanding of and respect for individuals qualities, abilities, and diverse backgrounds.
• Advocating forequality and integrityin all you do.
• Always learning, with a passion to grow and develop your skills.
• Willing totake responsibilityand contribute to the delivery of Oxfordshire County Councils vision.
• Driventodo it differentlyto embark on a journey of continuous improvement.

You will have:

• Relevant experience of working with children and/or young people and/or families.
• Anunderstandingof the impact of abuse, social deprivation and disadvantage on children, young people and their families.
• Knowledge andunderstandingof the application of safeguarding principles.
• Ability to case-hold and within this assess, create, and record outcomedrivenplans for children and young people.

Please refer to the job description attached below for a full list of selection criteria.

Rewards and benefits

Our Rewards and Benefits

• Annual leave starting at 30 days per year (plus bank holidays) (pro rata)
• A comprehensive Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeingsupport24 x7.
• Range of family friendly policies.
• Childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme, range of staff discounts including travel, holidays, insurance, food, health & leisure activities.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities

Person Specification

General Requirements

• Please refer to job description above
• Please refer to job description above

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.