Full Time Residential Care Practitioner - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Rmbcrecruitment; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 27,135 - 33,166; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local authority pension

29 days annual leave

Bespoke training

Job summary

A local authority's Children’s Services is seeking a Residential Care Practitioner in Rotherham to provide high-quality care and interventions for children and young people. The ideal candidate will have a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Responsibilities include building supportive relationships, engaging in daily operations, and maintaining accurate records. This role offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits, including a local authority pension and 29 days of annual leave.

Qualifications

• Hold a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care or equivalent.
• Commitment to work evenings, weekends, and sleep-in shifts.
• Ability to travel across various locations in the Borough.

Responsibilities

• Promote, safeguard, and protect the welfare of children.
• Provide care for physical, emotional, and social needs of children.
• Engage in the daily running of the home.
• Complete relevant records and reports, ensuring safety standards.
• Develop strong relationships with services and agencies.

Skills

Relationship building

Child protection

Engagement in welfare

Behavior management

Education

Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care

Job description

Salary up to £30,151 per year and excellent benefits

Hours: Full time - 37 hours per week

Closing date: Sunday 30th June Interview Dates: Rolling interview throughout May and June

About the role

Rotherham Council’s Children’s Services have continued from strength to strength, most recently being deemed “Good” by Ofsted in July 2022.

The Residential Care Practitioner 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. Reporting into the Children's Home Registered Manager.

This post holder will play an active role which contributes to the protection, safeguarding and promotion of the education, health and well-being of Rotherham’s children and young people.

Responsibilities

As part of this role, you will:

• Promote, safeguard and protect the welfare of each child or young person.
• Provide care to children and young people in respect of meeting their physical, emotional and social needs.
• Key work individual children and young people, building effective relationships, being a positive role model and providing consistency of support.
• Apply the Rotherham Family Approach incorporating Restorative Practice and Signs of Safety and other agreed evidence based therapeutic and behavioural management approaches and practice models.
• Promote advocacy, voice and influence opportunities, which will ensure that children and young people participate in the decision making that affect them and their voices influence the decisions that develop, shape and improve practices within their home.
• Engage in the day to day running of the home to include leading and coordinating shifts, planning and participating in activities, provision of meals, personal and intimate care, administration of medication in line with the council’s policy and completing administrative tasks as required including safe handling of cash.
• Complete and peer audit relevant records and reports using both written and electronic communication. These will include: Care Plans, Positive Behaviour Plans, Risk Assessments and Daily Recordings relating to the child and home.
• Provide and promote a safe, stimulating and nurturing physical environment, contributing to Health and Safety Standards and the maintenance and security of the building.
• Work independently as part of a specialist team managing a caseload undertaking assessment of need, creating needs led plans to deliver evidence based interventions and undertake reviews with consideration for budgetary constraints and in accordance with legislation and council policies.
• Carry out the role of key worker for individual service users, providing assistance and guidance in areas of personal care, daily living, health, social integration and emotional support balancing complex and conflicting problems.
• Produce and maintain up to date accurate records to an appropriate standard as required by policy and good practice by using appropriate IT equipment and other methods.
• Develop strong working relationships with services, agencies and providers to contribute to effective multi-agency working and ensure that non-delivery by agencies is challenged appropriately.

Our offer to you

• Local authority pension.
• 29 days annual leave.
• Joining our “Good” and “Outstanding” Children’s Services teams.
• Consideration of market forces increase when negotiating your salary.
• 4-week induction training prior to opening our new home.
• Bespoke training using Rotherham Family Approach. This incorporates Signs of Safety and Restorative Practice.
• 1:1 ratio of Residential Practitioner to young person.
• A home with a team of 2 members of staff always present.
• Access to our in-house therapeutic service.
• Additional provisional support in the form of our nationally recognised Edge of Care services, and Crisis support team.
• Committed to support your L3 qualification if not already qualified at point of hire.
• A chance to make a real difference to a young person’s life.

About you

You will hold a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care or the equivalent.

We’re committed to providing L3 qualification to a candidate without this existing qualification who shows experience and skills needed for the role.

You’ll be a committed member of the team, seeking to inspire and support some of our most complex young people. As part of the residential team you will be required to work evenings, weekends and sleep-in shifts as needed.

You must be able to travel to various locations throughout the Borough.

About us

We pride ourselves on the consistently high standards of care provided across Children’s and Young People’s Services, which has led to our “Good” Ofsted rating in 2022. We’re driven to centring provision around the needs of Rotherham’s young people, and this drive extends to our residential teams.

We have a commitment to an ethos of excellence, integrity, trust and transparency. By joining our team, you too will advocate for and live these values.

Rotherham and the wider South Yorkshire region is a great place to live. We’re in the heart of beautiful countryside, and a short distance from several bustling towns and cities. Rotherham is easy to reach if commuting from Sheffield, Leeds or Doncaster.

If you have any questions regarding these opportunities and or would like a conversation about these new roles please email [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. For further information, please visit our website.

From 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2024, employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a weekly / monthly deduction (dependent on pay frequency) 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 day’s leave (pro rata for part-time).

Confirmation of these appointments is also subject to a medical assessment.

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