Children's Residential Emergency Response Practitioner

NHS; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking dedicated Children's Emergency Response Residential Practitioners to join their team in Rotherham. This role involves providing high-quality care and interventions to children and young people facing complex challenges in various settings. You will work within a dynamic emergency response team, supporting children in crisis and promoting their well-being. With a strong focus on collaboration and evidence-based practices, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of vulnerable children and families. Join a passionate team committed to safeguarding and enhancing the lives of those in need, while benefiting from excellent training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Local Government Pension Scheme

Extensive training program

Access to therapeutic services

30 days annual leave

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting children with complex needs and emotional difficulties.
• Knowledge of safeguarding frameworks and children's home regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care to children in various settings.
• Work collaboratively with multi-agency teams to support families.
• Implement and review individual care programs for children.

Skills

Child development knowledge

Multi-agency collaboration

Crisis intervention skills

Therapeutic approaches

Emotional regulation support

Education

Level 6 qualification (e.g., Bachelor Degree)

NVQ level 4 Adult Care or equivalent

Job description

The post holder will provide high quality care and interventions to children and young people in a variety of settings including residential homes, emergency accommodation, family home and foster placements, which will contribute to the protection, safeguarding and promotion of the education, health and well-being of children and young people.

This role is specifically to work within our emergency response team; therefore the post holder will need to work in a flexible way, which will include working across services, often supporting children in crisis.

Main duties of the job

You should have:

• Experience of working in a service or provision designed to support children and young people with complex needs, such as difficulties in regulating their emotions and behaviours due to past experiences.
• Experience of working directly with children and families in a multi-agency setting and knowledge of the roles of other agencies and professionals.
• Knowledge of child development and the impact of early childhood trauma.
• Knowledge and experience of developing, implementing, and reviewing individual programmes of care.
• Knowledge of Children’s Homes Regulations and Safeguarding frameworks.
• Practical knowledge of working / dealing with difficult situations in a diplomatic, sensitive and caring professional manner and knowledge of professional boundaries and safe working practices which contribute to managing risk.

About us

This is an excellent time to work within Rotherham. We are passionate about the place and the people who live, work and visit here. We are delivering major regeneration and housing, as well as creating new jobs and opportunities for our residents. Rotherham is a real 'central UK' location with excellent road and rail links and is ideally placed near the scenic countryside of the Peak District, whilst also being conveniently located next to the vibrant city of Sheffield.

Our vision for Rotherham is that we come together as a community, where we seek to draw on our proud history to build a future we can all share. We respect decency, dignity and seek to build a town where opportunity is extended to everyone, where people can grow, flourish and prosper, and where no one is left behind.

We offer an excellent pay and benefits package which includes membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as a range of health and wellbeing and other benefits.

Job responsibilities

Job reference: REQ19229

Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week and Part-time 18.5 hours per week.

Please state clearly on your application form which post(s) you wish to apply for.

Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council Children and Young Peoples 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.

The 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 August 2022 and build on practice from our short break residential home provision.

Children's Emergency Response 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.
• Apply agreed evidence based therapeutic and behavioural management approaches and practice models.
• 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 a 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 councils policy.
• Undertake staff training, attend staff meetings and formal supervision sessions.
• Provide and promote a safe, stimulating and nurturing physical environment.
• Hold a full valid UK driving license and be willing to transport children and young people.
• Work a mixture of days, evenings, weekends, waking nights and sleep in shifts as part of the residential team.

Key benefits of working at Rotherham Councils Children and Young Peoples 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 closely with each setting.
• The opportunity to make a real difference to the children, young people and families.
• Investment in you as a practitioner involving support, supervision, training and opportunity for professional development and progression.
• Local Authority pension and 30 days annual leave, to be taken in line with the agreed weekend annual leave allocation as detailed in employer handbook.

About you

We are seeking inspirational, resilient and child focused practitioners who are committed to:

• Developing their skills and practices in order to provide an outstanding residential service to children and young people.
• Supporting and caring for some of our most complex children and young people, at times in solo provision.
• Working a mixture of days, evenings, weekends, waking nights and sleep in shifts as part of the residential team.

Our vision is for the children and families of Rotherham to routinely experience and describe the services they receive from us, as outstanding and we intend to do that by putting the child first in everything we do.

By being part of our residential service, you will play a crucial role in developing our collective commitment to an ethos of excellence, integrity, trust and transparency. You will also be joining us at a time of change as we continue to develop our provision, providing you with an opportunity to be involved and influence the service design and development of practice in line with best practice and evidence-based approaches.

If you have any questions regarding these opportunities and or would like a conversation about these new roles please e:mail [e-mail]

This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.

Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).

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Person Specification

Experience

• Experience in the engagement of adults/and/or children/families (some of whom are resistant to engage), with detailed knowledge of what works to effect positive change.
• Experience of working within the community and familiar with multi agency working.
• Experience and understanding of the key worker role.
• Experience of understanding the needs of clients with a range of sensitive and personal care.
• Experience of caseload management in order to optimise individual performance.

Qualifications

• Level 6 qualification e.g. Bachelor Degrees, Graduate Certificates and Diplomas, or Level 5 qualification e.g. Diplomas of HE and FE, foundation degrees and HNDs, plus experience in relevant areas of work over a period of years.
• Or
• Evidence of the equivalent level of knowledge gained through work experience.
• NVQ level 4 Adult Care or equivalent.

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.