Disabled Children Practitioner

**Disabled Children Practitioner**:

- Date: 9 Dec 2024
- Job Location: Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Disabled Children Practitioner
- Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 6
- Salary: £32,115 - £35,235 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 29/12/2024
- Job Requisition Number: 10557
- This post is open to job share

We are currently recruiting for a full time Disabled Children Practitioner to join our Disabled Children's Service on a permanent basis.

**Reward and support**

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

- flexible and agile working opportunities
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
- option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
- family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
- supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- an in-house Occupational Health service
- employee discount scheme
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development and qualification opportunities
- access to our Social Work Academy

**Right child, right support, right time, every time**

We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:

- ‘Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s servicessignificant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’_

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

**About our team**

The Disabled Children's Team supports children and young people who are aged 0 - 18 years old with significant needs arising from their disability. The team aims to ensure that disabled children and their families have access to a needs led services that promotes resilience, co-production and improves children’s life chances. To do this the team will work with partners to make sure that every child has an accurate assessment of need; with a plan that sets out how support will be delivered, with the aim to improve outcomes.

**About the role**

Working as a Disabled Children's Practitioner is an exciting, interesting, and rewarding role. Your aim will be to deliver targeted support to vulnerable children and their families to achieve better outcomes and reduce the need for higher level support and long-term demand for services.

You will undertake early help assessments and co-ordinate and deliver interventions using a solution focussed approach. By building supportive and empowering relationships with families, you will engage parents through creative and innovative strategies, in line with partner agencies and organisations.

You will benefit from our commitment to delivering the best possible service to children and families, and the chance to join an experienced and dynamic team. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpins the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect.

**About you**

We are looking for someone with experience of working with children, young people, families, and communities to deliver a wide range of interventions.

Experience of working with multi-agency assessments and plans is also a must.

A full driving licence and access to a car is essential.

The role of a Disabled Children's Practitioner requires you to work flexible hours.

**How to apply**

**If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here**:Children's Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council**

**Additional Information**

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:

- Disabled Children's Practitioner Role Profile

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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