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**Job description**

**Pause Practitioner**
- Full Time 37 Hours
- Permanent
- Grade 9 £33, 513 - £37, 588 depending on experience
- Are you an ambitious, creative and influential practitioner who is passionate about reducing the number of children being removed into care by supporting women to bring about change in their lives?

**About Pause**:

- Pause works with women who have experienced, or are at risk of, repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care.
- Through an intense programme of support, it aims to break this cycle and give women the opportunity to reflect, tackle destructive patterns of behaviour, and to develop new skills and responses that can help them create a more positive future. In doing so, we aim to prevent the damaging consequences of thousands more children being taken into care.
- As a Pause Practitioner, you will be responsible for implementing a range of interventions and support measures as part of an integrated package of health, therapeutic and social support. Pause is specifically designed to address the complex needs of women, through intensive support, to enable change in their lives, and ultimately reduce the numbers of children being removed into care. You will work systemically in delivering a relationship-based programme where frequency, tenacity and creativity are central.
- Key responsibilities:

- Work effectively as a team member of Pause Doncaster to ensure fidelity and integrity to the model through delivery of the Pause Framework elements (for example: assertive outreach with women delivered in a bespoke trauma informed approach; women are supported to use a form of effective contraception that is acceptable to them and supports them to achieve the sustained pause in pregnancy needed for the programme)
- Undertake an effective, flexible, intensive outreach approach to engage with Pause women
- Support the development and maintenance of effective local pathways with key agencies, e.g. sexual health, housing and mental health;
- Ensure an evidence base is applied to practice through a collaborative assessment of a woman's needs and strengths
- Develop focused, bespoke and creative interventions that meet the woman’s needs and objectives and ensure that any financial spending on women is aligned with their goals as set out in their care plan
- Ensure outcomes are achieved through the use of the Pause Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework and that data and recording is completed to a high standard
- Ensure all practice matters relating to child protection or vulnerable adults are dealt with promptly and in line with local safeguarding
- Represent Pause at relevant events
- Embed a continuous learning ethos within individual and team practice including involvement in reflective practice discussions and demonstrating and maintaining healthy and professional boundaries.
- General requirements:

- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults that you are responsible for or come into contact with through practice
- Maintain an up to date working knowledge of legislation, statutory frameworks and codes of practice, including DfE Working Together, the Children Act 2004 and local Child Protection Procedures, and appropriate adult safeguarding legislation
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and local protocols including for example the Data Protection Act and confidentiality policies, organisational policies, and Health and Safety at Work requirements
- Work within a flexible framework in order to meet the demands of the programme outside of usual office hours and travel as required
- Must be able to meet the physical and travel / mobility requirements of the post with or without reasonable adjustments
- Be part of the national Pause network and attend a programme of training and learning events across the country (travel and occasional overnight stays away from home will be required)
- Carry out duties in line with organisational policy on Equality and Diversity and be sensitive and caring to the needs of others, promoting a positive approach to a harmonious working environment.
- Person Specification
- Qualifications:

- Relevant professional qualification and/or experience e.g. nursing, social work, mental health, education, criminal justice, youth work, therapeutic practice, counselling, criminal justice or equivalent;
- Professional registration (if appropriate)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring check (DBS) enhanced level.
- Experience and knowledge:

- Experience of working with families/individuals who present with a range of complex needs (mental health challenges, drug and alcohol misuse, domestic violence) and demonstrate an ability to create rapport and build effective relationships
- Experience of case management including assessments, care planning and reviews with clients with complex needs
- Knowledge and unde