RISE Practitioner

RISE Mutual CIC is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated professional to join our team as a RISE Practitioner. As a key member of our organization, you will play a vital role in delivering a range of interventions to children and young people, as well as their parents, to help reduce re-offending and protect the public.

• Specialist Child to Parent Violence Delivery:
  • Advocate for the rights of children to be respected, heard, and protected.
  • Deliver sessions for parents using Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) techniques and child and family members, applying a systematic family approach to managing violence and abuse in the home.
  • Adhere to the relevant programme manuals for parents as well as for the children and young people.
  • Use motivational interviewing techniques and strength-based approaches to engage with families.
  • Support parents and young people to learn skills and knowledge to deal with behavior in a non-violent way, using NVR and trauma-informed CBT methods.
  • Work closely with other statutory and voluntary professionals to ensure appropriate steps are taken to protect where there is an imminent risk to another person.
• Safeguarding Children, Young People, and Vulnerable Adults:
  • RISE Mutual CIC has a legal Duty of Care to all persons with whom we work.
  • Post holders with direct service user contact are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults they are responsible for or come into contact with.
  • Post holders not in direct offender contact have a general responsibility for safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

The post holder will focus on delivery of the child, adolescent to parental violence and abuse programme which incorporates an NVR approach.

The NVR practitioner will work with the parent/care giver predominantly, other members of the family who are impacted or experiencing the abuse from their sibling or grandchild, and if willing, with the young person causing harm.

Key accountabilities include:

• Be responsible and accountable for working with Team leader and/or Service Manager and Advanced practitioner to ensure risk is reviewed on a weekly basis.
• Attend monthly risk review and practice development meetings with Team leader or Advanced practitioner to ensure effective risk management procedures are applied at all times.
• Attend training sessions to enhance their delivery and understanding of NVR.
• Be personally accountable for the completion of assessments, pre and post questionnaires, and End of Intervention reports, and ensure they are to a high standard.
• Provide support and consultancy to other professionals to ensure appropriateness of referrals and improve understanding on NVR and CBT techniques and working with families (parents and children and young people).
• Ensure effective planning for the delivery of each intervention in advance of the session.
• Partake and pass all relevant NVR and other child, young people and parent-centred training to undertake this specialist work.
• Deliver community training as required.