Senior Leaving Care Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Chesterfield, United Kingdom Derbyshire County Council Full time

**Leaving Care Service Senior Practitioner
- Grade 11 (Supported Lodgings and accommodation)**

**About the role**

This is a full-time post based within Derbyshire’s Leaving Care Service. You will line manage our Supported Lodgings Leaving Care workers but also take a strategic lead on further developing our accommodation offer to care leavers, including a potential Staying Close project.

You will have experience of working with accommodation providers and carers and be able to operate at a strategic level to develop projects, be a key link with Housing colleagues and have the passion and drive to further develop our already successful Supported Lodgings and Staying Put scheme.a

You will be committed to corporate parenting, relationships based practice as the driver of positive outcomes and transitions. Social Pedagogy and trauma informed approaches will be at the heart of your practice and with the ability to challenge and aspire colleagues and partners to ensure a genuine parenting approach and good accommodation options for older children in care and care leavers. You will be joining an established, high performing service with excellent strategic agreements including a comprehensive Local Offer for Care Leavers (soon to be refreshed), excellent EET opportunities, discounted water bills for care leavers, council tax reductions, thriving support groups. We are aspirational to build an even better service following on from our 2201 Ofsted Leaving Care Visit. Inspectors were _humbled by the amazing strength’ _of the council’s care leavers and found:

- A passionate and skilled workforce which is enabling care leavers to progress well and benefit from positive experiences
- The aspirations, wishes and concerns for young people leaving the council’s care are apparent and plans are _‘ambitious’ _reflecting a _‘determination for care leavers to succeed in what they want to do.’_
- A focus on effective transition for young people between the ages of 16 and 18 with support to develop confidence and life skills to negotiate the opportunities and challenges of adulthood.
- Young people leaving the council’s care value the service and said workers are caring and supportive and they felt they could contact their worker when necessary
- Accommodation needs are carefully considered so young people feel secure and their wishes around location are respected so they can maintain relationships with people who are important to them
- There is a clear focus on education, employment and training designed to help young people of all abilities choose the appropriate route to make the most of their opportunities when they leave care
- The council’s culture is _‘not giving up on a young person’ _and this is embedded across the service

What will you be doing?
- Line Managing Supported lodgings workers, chairing panels and help the accommodation offer grow.
- Leading on a variety of key strategic projects
- Effectively manage a number of young people to **achieve the best outcomes** for them.
- Model best practice and lead others
- Evidencing a determined commitment to corporate parenting
- **Working in partnership** with colleagues, locality social workers, housing and adult social care teams

What skills and experience do you need?
- Experience of and an ability to mentor and manage others, but particularly partners (refer to job and person profile for more information).
- Experience of accommodation panels, working with foster carers.
- Excellent **communication and interpersonal** skills, with a person-centred approach to building a rapport and relationships with workers and children and families.
- Ability to reflect on own practice and development enabling **flexible and thoughtful** practice and positive change.

We believe that hard work and commitment to your role should be rewarded, so we offer a package to our workers that will ensure you always feel supported and valued:

- manageable case loads and line management of staff
- two thriving office and young person hubs
- Visible, supportive and determined managers.
- diverse range of projects providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career
- effective leadership and management
- excellent supervision and a supportive peer network
- access to an excellent range of training and development opportunities, worth over £5000, including leadership and management development
- Corporate membership with Research in Practice - allowing access to reputable, evidence-based research, training, and resources
- Membership of the National Leaving Care Benchmarking forum (including attendance at national conference)
- fantastic opportunities to undertake further formal qualifications and career progression through our career pathways
- DBS check undertaken and paid for by us

If you would like to talk to someone informally about this post, please contact.

What benefits do we offer you?
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- generous annual leave and flex

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