Job Introduction
A rare opportunity has arisen for a Part Time Family Practitioner within the Children’s Disability Service. The Part-Time post is based in Burton, Staffordshire, covering East Staffs and Tamworth, working Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
We have 4 Children’s Disability teams across the County, and they provide specialist services for children and young people with complex disabilities.
The teams are supported by skilled Family Practitioners who assist in facilitating behaviour management work, practical support and undertaking direct work with children and their families. The work of the service is diverse across the breath of social work tasks and functions. This may include some occasional out of hours and weekend working.
Family Practitioners in this service are required to be creative and innovative. The candidate will be expected to be a team player. The ability to engage and communicate with disabled children is essential and the successful applicant will be committed to ensuring the children they support receive the best quality service.
If you are confident and have the skills and experience to work within a busy Social Work team, then this is an opportunity for you to further your expertise.
This Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
Main Responsibility
Family Practitioners in this service are required to be creative and innovative. The candidate will be expected to be a team player. The ability to engage and communicate with disabled children is essential and the successful applicant will be committed to ensuring the children they support receive the best quality service.
- Underpinned by our restorative practice model work with children with disabilities and their families to support children to achieve improved outcomes.
- To work collaboratively with social workers to support children in need, children on child protection plans and children in care.
- To develop, facilitate and organise family and professionals’ meetings, events and groups.
- To provide transport and support to children and their families to a variety of situations including school, medical appointments, meetings and social activities working under the guidance of the allocated social worker.
- To provide intensive support to children and families to enable them to remain together or where appropriate to support reunification of families.
- Work with children and families including contributing to assessments and providing practical support, this may include moving and handling, personal care, assistance with feeding, behaviour management and administration of medication following training by a qualified professional and within guidance of an agreed care plan and risk assessment
- To be available outside of traditional working patterns including evening and weekends to provide support to children, families and carers when it is needed.
The Ideal Candidate
The Ideal Candidate will have disability experience, will have worked within children previous.
Will have skills and the ability to engage and communicate with disabled children is essential and the successful applicant will be committed to ensuring the children they support receive the best quality service.
Assist in facilitating behaviour management work, practical support and undertaking direct work with children and their families.
For more information about this role, please contact Natasha Davies, Team Manager, on natasha.davies@staffordshire.gov.uk
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Silver Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
