Senior Residential Practitioners

RMBC has made a strategic decision to make a significant investment in childrens residential services. This will ensure more of ourlooked after children are placed in Rotherham, close to their local communities, family and schools.

We are particularly looking for practitioners who have previous experience of working in specialist solo provision, mental health residential settings, crisis accommodation and with children and young people with sensory, ASD, mental health needs and who have suffered significant trauma.

This new residential provision will be part of a Children and Young People Service judged as `Good` by Ofsted in January 2018 and buildon practice from our short break residential home judged as `Outstanding` in February 2020.

Seeking inspirational, resilient and child focused practitioners who are committed to:

Developing their skills/practices to provide an outstanding residential service

Support/caring for complex children and young people, at times in solo provision

Working evening, weekend and sleep in shifts aspart of the residential team

Our vision is for children and families to experience and describe the services they received, as outstanding- by putting the child first in everything we do.

By being part of our residential teams, you willplay a crucial role in developing our collective commitment to an ethos of excellence, integrity, trust and transparency. Joining us at a time of change with regard to developing our provision provides you an opportunity to be involved and influence the service design and development of practice in line with best practice and evidence-based approaches.

This is an excellent time to work within Rotherham. We are passionate about the place and the people who live,work and visit here. We are delivering major regeneration and housing, as wellas creating new jobs and opportunities for our residents. Rotherham is a real'central UK' location with excellent road and rail links and is ideally placed near the scenic countryside of the Peak District, whilst also being conveniently located next to the vibrant city of Sheffield.

Our vision for Rotherham is thatwe come together as a community, where we seek to draw on our proud history tobuild a future we can all share. We respect decency, dignity and seek to builda town where opportunity is extended to everyone, where people can grow, flourish and prosper, and where no one is left behind.

We offer an excellent pay and benefits package which includes membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as a range of health and wellbeing and other benefits.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Location:
Various, Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Salary £35,412 - £38,220 plus excellent benefits.

Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week.

Salary will be determined dependent on experience and qualifications. Progression through the salary bands will be subject to individual development and assessment within the role.

Are you an experienced, solution oriented, systemic working, child focused practitioner, keen to work alongside partners and particularly our children and young people to deliver a new model of residential intervention in Rotherham? This post could be for you

Following a full service review our Children and Young Peoples Service are now recruiting for Senior Childrens Residential Practitioners.

These new posts will play a key role in the development and delivery of a range of in-house residential provision for Rotherhams children and young people.

Rotherham Council has made a strategic decision to make a significant investment in childrens residential services. This will ensure more of our looked after children are placed in Rotherham, close to their local communities, family, and schools.

We are using current best practice and evidence-based models to develop a range of new children`s homes including 2 and 4 bed childrens homes, emergency accommodation and solo provision for some of our most complex children and young people.

We are particularly looking for Senior Childrens Residential Practitioners who are keen to be part of setting up and managing new homes and staff teams and have previous experience of working in specialist solo provision, mental health residential settings, crisis accommodation and with children and young people with sensory, ASD, mental health needs and who have suffered significant trauma.

Senior Childrens Residential Practitioners in Rotherham will:

• Promote, safeguard, and protect the welfare of looked after children across the borough
• Apply agreed evidence based therapeutic and behavioural management approaches and practice models
• Provide opportunities for children and young people to influence the decisions that affect them and the service they receive
• Work systemically and as part of team to ensure a joined-up service centred on the child
• Manage and adapt rota arrangements to ensure that children and young people have safe levels of support.
• Support the…