Role: Children and Young Persons Practitioner - Refuge
Based: Basildon (multiple sites)
Rate: GBP18 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.
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