Childrens Services Practitioner

at  Action for Children

CHILDRENS SERVICES PRACTITIONER

Salary: £24,500 per annum (£12,250 per annum pro-rata)
Location: Moray
Contract/Hours: Permanent, Part-time - 18.5 hours per week (worked between the core operational hours of Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00) with flexibility to work outside of these hours as and when required.

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you’ll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 687,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It’s the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children’s lives.
A bit about the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NEW Action for Children Peep service in Moray as a part time Children’s Services Practitioner - supporting development and delivery of a new universal PEEP pathway across the area.
As a Children’s Services Practitioner, you will be providing a supportive service to children, young people, and their families, based on an assessment of their needs. You will be responsible for day-to-day resource planning, including supervising, assisting, and directing staff and volunteers in service delivery, whilst delivering training and support in other areas.
About the service
Peep is an early intervention programme that aims to build parenting capacity by empowering parents and carers to feel more confident in supporting their children’s learning and development.
This is mainly done by delivery of the Peep Learning Together Programme through group work and focuses is on language skills, literacy, and numeracy with the building of self-esteem and positive attitudes towards learning.
This is regarded as hugely important in encouraging both adults and children to become lifelong learners and through the programme Peep aims to enable families to feel part of their community as well as boosting their knowledge, confidence, and motivation.

Based on the Peeple principles, the guidelines the Peep team uses when working with families are as follows:

• Peep recognises that parents are their child’s first and most important educators and takes a positive approach by working with and not to parents.
• Peep builds on people’s strengths, focusing on what they can do, not what they can’t do
• Peep values the knowledge and experience that parents have of their children’s development and uses this as a starting point to build on it by offering ideas and information.
• Peep aims to raise parents’ awareness of how children learn through everyday activities and how they can support development and learning through singing, stories, play and interaction.
• Peep aims to support the development of positive relationships, secure attachments and self-esteem.

HOW YOU’LL HELP TO CREATE BRIGHTER FUTURES

• Delivering specialist interventions with children, young people, or families on a 1:1 basis, group or community setting including the design and development of programmes being delivered
• Provide key working support planning casework, including undertaking assessing, reviewing, and managing risks.
• Attending and participating at relevant multi-agency meetings, providing a support role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review
• Establishing and developing effective relationships and channels of communication with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies
• Retaining accurate and contemporaneous records, using various IT systems and work in accordance with organisational policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
  Let’s talk about you

Are you resilient and have a positive approach to change and challenge? We are looking for someone with a ‘can do’ attitude to join our team. Ideally you will have:

• Experience working within a care environment preferably working with children and young people with learning disabilities, their families and carers.
• Comfortable facilitating small group sessions
• Strong organisational skills
• Good IT skills (Microsoft Office suite and database software)
• Meticulous attention to detail and record-keeping skills
• Safeguarding knowledge and experience.
• To be positive and solution focussed.
• Training on the programme will be provided.
• Driving licence and access to a car. The job requires the ability to travel according to the needs of the job, with reasonable adjustments, if required, according to the Equality Act.

Good to know
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.
Talent Pool
We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We’d love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you’d rather we didn’t.
Contact: Scott Jones via email at quoting reference 10351
Diversity, equality and inclusion
At Action for Children, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Don’t meet every single requirement?
If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we’d love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family

Please refer the Job description for details