Children's Senior Residential Care Practitioner

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Residential Children’s Practitioner to work full time based in King’s Lynn.

The salary for this permanent Senior Residential Children’s Practitioner job is up to £34,723 per annum.

**Main duties**:

- To engage in the effective delivery of residential childcare utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs assessments and care planning
- To help create a positive environment for each young person with regard to their safety, health and education and diverse needs
- To carry out high quality assessments, use child centred and multi-agency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships, and secure the best outcomes for children and young people
- To share social work knowledge, theory and practice with colleagues
- To strengthen the relationships between children, young people and families wherever possible and appropriate and to complete outreach tasks where possible
- To deliver residential childcare in accordance with Ofsted’s Social Care Inspection Framework
- To maintain good professional practice within the homes in accordance with Departmental Standards, working as part of a team to achieve good outcomes for children and young people
- To form effective relationships with young people and their families to ensure that: a caring environment is maintained, their emotional and physical needs are met, ‘safe care’ standards are met and opportunities for their development are maximised
- To ensure that the young person’s views and wishes are sought and acted upon
- To manage risk effectively, strengthen emotional resilience, and address underlying causes impacting negatively on the young people’s development
- To attend statutory reviews and planning meetings
- To maintain full, accurate, and up to date records in accordance with departmental practice and guidance, including the maintenance of electronic records on case management systems
- To contribute to young people’s care plans, dynamic group risk assessments, constantly reviewing and updating them
- To work in partnership with families/carers and all key agencies who are involved in decision making and planning by sharing information in a timely and accurate manner

**Requirements of this job**:

- Have a Dip SW, CQSW, CSS or appropriate nursing qualifications
- Have significant care experience, including direct work with disabled children
- Be keen to support young people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours as part of our new Children with Disabilities (CWD) emergency provision
- Be required to have good levels of literacy and numeracy
- Be able to make sound judgements under pressure and respond effectively in a crisis
- Need to be committed to safeguarding and making a difference in the lives of young people
- Need to be reliable, have good personal relationship and communication skills as well as high professional standards
- Have a driving licence and access to a car
- Be flexible to work shifts including weekends, evenings and sleep-in

**Contact**:
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

**Reasonable Adjustments**:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.