Senior Youth Practitioner

4 weeks ago

Weymouth, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

**About The Role**:
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, supporting children and young people with learning disabilities.

We currently have two full time Senior Youth Practitioner posts available. One is based in The Cherries and one is based at Chestnut House, both in Weymouth.

**What you can expect to be doing**

You will be experienced in leading a team, and undertaking supervision of others, demonstrating a solution focused and child centred approach, so that children and young people receive consistent, planned and individualised care and support.

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, creative and passionate to ensure children and young people who are disabled are provided with the best opportunities to achieve their goals, aspirations and successful outcomes.

Dorset has a comprehensive training programme which supports your professional growth and development.

**What you will be doing**

The Senior Youth Practitioner role is part of the management structure. You will be responsible for the day-to-day care of young people as well has having additional management oversight responsibilities.

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

Duties will include taking responsibilities for the management and leadership of the home as designated by the Registered Manager, which will include, direction and supervision of staff, direct child care, medication administration, undertaking sleeping in shifts and occasional on-call duties.

**Further Information**:
Additional allowances are paid for sleeping-in, bank holiday working and On-call duties.

You will work a 37 hour per week rolling rota which may include working every other weekend and occasional bank holidays.

This vacancy is being advertised internally to:

- our employees
- agency workers currently working for us
- casual workers currently working for us

Employees working within a school are not considered internal applicants.

This is a full time role at 37 hours per week.

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.

Employees can share this advert by using the button links alongside the job title.

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.

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. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

**About Us**:
**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.

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