Short Breaks Practitioner

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom CRA GROUP LIMITED Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Short Breaks Practitioner to join our Children and Young People's Disability Service. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing high-quality short breaks assessments and reviews of social care packages for vulnerable children and young people with severe to profound disabilities and/or complex health needs.

Key Responsibilities
  • Act as a lead professional/care coordinator for a caseload of disabled children with complex needs and their families, facilitating a coordinated team around the child approach to ensure an appropriate support plan is in place.
  • Undertake reviews of short breaks that are analytical, person-centered, and based on evidence.
  • Ensure children are regularly seen and undertake assessments of disabled children in their homes that are multidisciplinary.
  • Provide advice to families about services and benefits available to them and assist them in making claims for benefits, referring to the Specialist Welfare Rights Adviser and the Children's Information Service where necessary.
  • Support and encourage families to take part in the decision-making process, enabling families to become as independent as possible in meeting the needs of their disabled child.
  • Work in collaboration with staff in statutory and/or voluntary agencies, attending and positively contributing to network professionals' meetings, EHCP reviews, and care plan meetings when required as part of systemic multi-agency working.
  • Identify quickly and take appropriate action when a child's needs warrant a change in their support, preparing reports before Panel, attending Panel, and following up on actions agreed in Panels.
  • Promote the child's continued health and wellbeing, including the promotion of independence and choice where appropriate, and promote awareness of the range of services on offer for disabled children, young people, and their families.
  • Have a good understanding of services available to disabled children and young people and their families and complete referrals on their behalf if required.
  • Promote multidisciplinary working and contribute to the development of integrated service delivery for disabled children, assisting colleagues who are non-designated lead professionals.
  • Help ensure that services offered meet the needs of the multiracial and cultural community in the Borough, ensuring that these services meet the needs of disabled children, young people, adults, and their families.
  • Maintain case files, records of consultations, contemporaneous notes of visits, interviews, and telephone conversations, complete appropriate forms and documents, reviews, and correspondence according to Departmental Codes of Practice.
Requirements
  • Good working knowledge of the pressures faced by families with children living in socially deprived neighbourhoods, the issues faced by/needs of disadvantaged families with children, including discrimination, and in particular the issues faced and needs of disabled children and their families.
  • Experience of working with children with disabilities and of providing support to disabled children and their families in multicultural communities.
  • Good knowledge of the legislative framework relating to children, particularly the Children Act 1989 and the Children and Families Act 2014 and the SEND framework.
  • Knowledge of the factors affecting family and child outcomes, e.g. attachment, play and learning, resilience, emotional wellbeing, transitions, parenting capacity, parental health, poverty, alcohol and substance misuse, and domestic abuse.
  • Experience of undertaking assessments of individual needs and/or risk; of designing and implementing care/transition plans; of monitoring and reviewing such plans over a period.
  • Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels internally and externally to achieve set objectives.
  • Collaborative approach demonstrating mutual trust and support within the council and with partners, facilitating integrated working with a wide range of professionals, including Health, Social Care, and Education.
  • Ability to take responsibility for own work consistently achieving and delivering to time and quality despite tight timescales and conflicting priorities.
  • Proficient in using Microsoft Office Packages and IT systems.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrate resourcefulness, innovation, and creativity and be open to ideas and challenges and committed to individual learning and development.
  • Ability to identify and respond to risk to support the safeguarding and protection of children, young people, and adults.
  • Able to establish positive and effective working relationships with children, young people, and families to ascertain their wishes and engage them in decision-making processes.
  • Experience of delivering evidence-based parenting programmes/behaviour interventions.

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