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

Children & Young People's Practitioners, Children's Home
Location: Working from this organisation's Children's Home in 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, an organisation committed to helping young people in care, 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 their all-female unit, under Section 7(2) (b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

Salary & Benefits

They believe 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 Tuesday 8th July
Interviews: 1st Round online on Teams from Monday 30th June
Start Date: Summer

Application Process:

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

Investing in their People

They value the importance of determining the right strategy, keeping everyone on board, enhancing our 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 them, 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

They are 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 they attract 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 they have set themselves a number of challenging but achievable targets in their new Inclusion and Equality Action Plan.

No agencies please.