Role: Children and Young Persons Practitioner - Refuge
Based: Basildon (multiple sites)
Rate: £18 ph umb
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Temp
Hours: 35 hours per week
Our client, a registered Charity, providing domestic abuse services across the south of Essex, is looking for a CYP Practitioner to join their team.
Synopsis of duties:
- Create a safe and welcoming environment for all children in the refuge setting.
- Ensure the voice of the child is considered in all assessments, support plans, and advocacy.
- Complete robust risk and therapeutic assessments for all children in the refuge setting, ensuring all their individual needs are identified and addressed.
- Actively manage a caseload of children and young people resident in the organisation s refuge settings, working with individuals to process and recover from their experiences.
- Work closely with mothers in the refuge, supporting them to be an effective parent, meeting the needs of their children, and ensuring safeguarding concerns are identified and addressed.
- Support the planning and development of the Children s Services offer.
- Deliver weekly support through one-to-one sessions and group work, utilising play and other interventions as required.
- Take an active role in leading play activities during school holidays and after school and provide fun and creative activities and opportunities for children and their mothers together.
- Advocate for the child to access nursery/school places or other educational settings.
- Work in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies who are involved in the family, attending meetings including case conferences, core groups, and teams around the child as necessary.
- Deliver parent and child group work programs such as Women s Aid s You, Me, Mum and Helping Hands programme.
- Provide support and advice on parenting to service users and colleagues, reporting concerns via the organisation s safeguarding procedures.
- Arrange day trips and events for families during school holidays.
- Attend and transport families to day events, where required.
- Ensure the timely and accurate input of service user data into the organisation s case management system and all other administrative duties associated with the role
- Undertake risk assessments for all activities to compliances with health and safety requirements.
- Work in a manner that ensures cultural sensitivity, and addresses discrimination and other barriers to accessing service.
- Represent the organisation at external partnership meetings, maintaining a high level of professional conduct at all times and endorsing the wider Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) agenda in public forums.
- Identify any safeguarding issues within the services for adults at risk and/or children and follow organisational safeguarding procedures to ensure the swift reporting of concerns to social services.
- Ensure all matters of Health and Safety and well-being relating to staff and service users are implemented to the requisite standard and checked as required.
- Regularly update knowledge around domestic abuse, stalking, and the VAWG context
- Participate in regular management supervision to ensure the highest standards of support and advocacy.
- Maintain strict organisational confidentiality, professional boundaries, and security procedures.
Essential Requirements:
- Experience of working with children/young people/adults experiencing domestic violence and abuse
- Experience in managing a caseload of children and young people, assessing their needs, and formulating support plans
- Experience in planning play activities for children and young people
- Experience in identifying safeguarding concerns and reporting concerns in line with local procedures
- DBS on the update service
- Available immediately
- Car driver with access to vehicle
Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.