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Keeping in Touch

1 month ago

Weymouth, United Kingdom Dorset Councils Full time

Organisation
- Dorset Council
- Location
- Dorset, United Kingdom, East Dorset, North Dorset, West Dorset, Weymouth
- Reference
- KITDORSET4
- Occupational group
- Health and Social Care - Children's
- Salary details
- £21,968 - £23,194 pro rata
- Job term
- Part Time
- Appointment type
- Permanent
- Contact
- Margaret Elliman
- Contact telephone
- 01305225089
- Closing Date
- 18 June 2023

**Keeping in Touch (KiT) Practitioner**

**Up to 37 hours per week / Various locations available**

**Dorset**

**£21,968 - £23,194 pro rata**

Join our newly established team of experienced workers with a wealth of skill and knowledge. All staff within the services are dedicated to building relationships with the children and families we are working with - supporting and facilitating keeping in touch for our children in care.

The keeping in touch (KIT) practitioners are based out of three localities in the North, South and East of the county to ensure equity in services delivery to our children. Our KIT practitioners are supported through regular supervision and team meetings by a well-established management team consisting of a Kit operational co-ordinator and team manager who report into the Services manager for Corporate parenting, permanence, and care leavers.

The KIT practitioner's primary role is to supervise keeping in touch sessions whilst Dorset Council are in proceedings with the children and families we are working with. Our services then look to support keeping in touch occurring in a more natural way after proceedings have concluded and step back allowing for other family members and or professionals to take more of a lead if required.

**What you will be doing**

The role requires our KIT practitioners to work collaboratively with others and their supervised keeping in touch reports will form part of assessments completed by the social work teams. Our KIT practitioners are key in promoting the safety, health, and wellbeing of our children in care.

You will be required to keep succinct timely records of their Keeping in touch sessions, which are input onto MOSAIC, our computer system for recording. You will be required to build professional working relationship quickly and be able to manage complex situations.

**About you**

You will be over the age of 18 and:

- have the skills and aptitude to work with young people and their families in a variety of environments; indoors in the family home or a contact centre, in the community in parks or leisure activities
- be dependable and reliable and committed to delivering a high quality services to our children and families.
- you may already be employed in the child care or people work environment.

It is important that you have:

- Experience of or a real interest in working with children and young people;
- The potential to build positive professional relationships and earn trust;
- The ability to think creatively and respond to changing situations;
- Energy and patience.

***
**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.

See the children’s social worker framework.

See our policy on safeguarding children and young people.

See our adult safeguarding policy.

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

This post involves working with children and/or vulnerable adults and/or having access to significant information about them.

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

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