Leaving Care Worker

2 weeks ago

Chesterfield, United Kingdom Derbyshire County Council Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen; where Derbyshire Leaving Care Service are looking for **Three Staying Close Workers** to join our committed Service to develop and embed our new **Staying Close Project.**

This post may be based at either Chesterfield or Ilkeston.

You will be assisting with the start-up and development of the new **Derbyshire Staying Close Project. **Working collaboratively with care experienced young people to support them with creating sustainable and positive futures. You will be working with our children in care and care experienced 16-25 year olds with Social Pedagogy, Systemic and Trauma informed approaches at the heart of your practice. You will be committed to corporate parenting, relationship-based practice as the driver of positive outcomes and transitions.

You will work alongside Action for Children our emotional wellbeing service and the Leaving Care Teams; with our partners including Housing, Commissioning, Social Care, Fostering, Residential, Health, Youth Justice, Education and Employment services. You will be building partnerships and embedding new processes to strengthen our current accommodation offer to care experienced young people and will be working intensively with our children in care as they start their transition towards adulthood and interdependence.

**What will I be doing**:

- Maintain our corporate responsibility, our positive outcomes and our culture of **_never giving up_** on our care experienced young people
- Work with a Social Pedagogy, Systemic and trauma informed approach; supporting our young people holistically alongside our partners and locality social work teams with an aspirational approach for young people’s futures
- Maintain a child centred approach while promoting care experienced young people’s transitions into interdependence
- Represent the service and our care experienced young people locally, regionally and nationally
- You will be working within the statutory guidelines and expectations for care experienced young people and children in care
- You will have a 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

**What skills and experience do you need to have**:

- Experience of working with children in care and care experienced young people
- A real** passion and commitment** to do more and better for our young people
- **Outstanding interpersonal** skills with the ability to build positive relationships with young people, workers, management and partners
- A **strong advocate** for care experienced young people and children in care
- Ability to reflect on own practice and development enabling **flexible and thoughtful**practice and positive change

**What we offer you**:

- Manageable case loads
- Two thriving office and young person hubs
- Visible, supportive and determined manager’s
- Diverse range of cases providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career
- Excellent supervision and a supportive peer network
- Access to an excellent range of training and development opportunities,
- Fantastic opportunities to undertake further formal qualifications and career progression through our career pathways

**What benefits do we offer you?**
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- generous annual leave, sick pay and flexi-time scheme
- travel expenses
- discount on leisure centre memberships
- free car parking at most sites
- an in-house counselling service
- occupational health service
- access to sessions with a trained physiotherapist
- cycle to work scheme
- DBS check undertaken and paid for by us
- Guaranteed incremental annual pay increases

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