Senior Youth Practitioner

2 months ago

Wimborne, United Kingdom Dorset Councils Full time

Organisation
- Dorset Council
- Location
- Wimborne, United Kingdom
- Reference
- 61054156B
- Occupational group
- Health and Social Care - Children's
- Salary details
- £31,099 - £35,411
- Job term
- Full Time
- Appointment type
- Permanent
- Contact
- Alan Nichol
- Contact telephone
- 07789111028
- Closing Date
- 07 May 2023

**Senior Youth Practitioner Level 2 Short Breaks service**:
**37 hours**:
**Salary £31,099 - £35,411**:
**The Harbour CWAD, Wimborne**:
Dorset is committed to creating environments for our children and young people to thrive. This is an exciting opportunity to join our new service as a Senior Youth practitioner based in the Wimborne area providing care and support to children and young people initially in a short break setting working with a small staff team and subsequently working across our communities and in homes to improve the lives of our children.

The priorities for our Dorset children are; that they stay in Dorset, which is the best place for them to live, that they are given the best start in life through good care provision and the best education and training opportunities, which enable them to thrive and be the best they can be.

**What you can expect to be doing**:
The senior youth practitioner role is part of the management of the short breaks setting. You will be responsible for the day-to-day care of young people within a short break setting as well has having additional management responsibilities.

You will play a key role in the running of the home and ensuring that we provide short breaks to children who are disabled in a safe and nurturing environment so that children and young people are supported to reach their full potential.

You will be an experienced practitioner who is passionate and aspirational in supporting young people, share our core values and celebrate differences. You will have experience of supporting young people with disabilities with their day to day lives, activities and promote community participation and social inclusion, as well as helping children develop life skills.

**About you**:
You will be a naturally caring person who can form and maintain positive relationships with our children, young people and families, as well as partner agencies and allocated social workers who form a team around the child.

You will be ambitious for our children, creative and passion to ensure children and young people who are disabled are supported to achieve the best outcomes and provide them with the opportunities to flourish.

You will be experienced in leading a team, creative in approach so that children and young people receive individually planned breaks and be solution focused.

**Skills and qualities we appreciate**

You will be a kind and caring person with a passion for improving lives, be ambitious for our children and flexible and creative in approach.

We are aspirational for our staff team as well as our children and you will be joining a supportive and inclusive council who will provide nurture and invest in you to enable you to thrive in your job. Dorset has a comprehensive training programme which supports your professional growth and development

**Additional information**:
You must be able to work some evenings, weekend work including sleep-ins for which there is an allowance and bank holidays.

As a 24hr service we are a flexible employer and would welcome a discussion around a variety of hours to be mutually agreeable, be it weekend only, part-time, full time etc.

This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

See our policy on safeguarding children and young people.

See our adult safeguarding policy.

**Dorset Council: A great place to work**

We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:

- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert

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