Children & Young People’s Practitioners - Children’s Home

CHM; London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A caring role offering an opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of young people in a Children's Home in London. Successful candidates will provide support in health, education, and well-being while being enrolled in a diploma program with strong professional development support.

Benefits

Highly competitive sector salaries

Staff well-being initiatives

Pension

Generous training budget

Paid work-related travel

Qualifications

• Experience of working with young people.
• Key qualities that enable good engagement.
• Strong values and a commitment to inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Lead on plans to support young people's health, education, and social needs.
• Promote sports, culture, and arts for young care leavers.

Skills

Mentoring

Coaching

Teaching

Engagement

Understanding risk

Professional development ambition

Job description

Children & Young People’s Practitioners, Children’s Home
Location:Working from our client's Children’s Home, London SW8 (Zone 2)
Salary:£26,400 plus £1,500 in bonuses, rising to £29,000 pa + benefits
Hours:Full-time (36hrs pw), shift work including weekend

Can you make a BIG difference to young people in care?

Our client is passionate about learning and development and committed to providing an outstanding experience for all staff. As soon as practicable they will enrol you on a Diploma programme and give you the time, support, and incentives to succeed.

Do you have?

• Experience of working with young people - e.g. mentoring, coaching, teaching.
• Key qualities that enable good engagement - e.g. warmth, kindness, humour.
• Strong values and a commitment to inclusion.
• An ability to understand, recognise and respond appropriately to risk.
• Ambition matched with a desire for professional development.

You will lead on plans to support their health, education, social, and day-to-day needs along with a specialist strand of work i.e. promoting sports, culture, and arts (SCAs). This is an important and significant role in helping young care leavers thrive and fulfil their potential.

Please note that only women are eligible to apply for the Residential Practitioner position at our all-female unit, under Section 7(2) (b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

Salary & Benefits

The organisation believes all staff should be paid well for work that delivers excellent services and changes the lives of young people in and leaving care.

As a result, they offer:

• Highly competitive sector salaries
• Staff well-being initiatives that promote selfcare and underpin reflective practice
• A pension
• A generous training budget
• Paid work-related travel

Timescales
Apply by:As soon as possible, before 5pm Monday 4th August
Interviews:1st Round online on Teams from Monday 4th August
Start Date:Summer

Interested?

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Investing in People

The organisation values the importance of determining the right strategy, keeping everyone on board, enhancing their management practices and continuously evaluating what's working or needs further improvement. They deliver services in an increasingly competitive, rapidly changing sector with limited resources.

For the organisation, the effective development of their collective talents and career prospects is the only way they can ensure sustained growth and competitive advantage.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equality

The organisation is committed to embedding inclusive practices, promoting equality and valuing diversity in all of their activities. They understand and acknowledge the positive benefits that this commitment will bring to the young people they support, their staff and their partner organisations.

They are striving to be an employer of choice for all and take measures to ensure that the organisation is attracting recruits from the most skilled and committed people regardless of their background. Whilst they can already be proud of some examples of excellent practice, they are not complacent and recognise that they can always do better.

For 2024-25 the organisation has set ourselves a number of challenging but achievable targets in their new Inclusion and Equality Action Plan.

No agencies please.