ID: 1378 Young Carers Personal Budgets Practitioner, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Service: RBKC Young Carers Personal Budgets Service Salary: - starting at £28,799 FTE per annum, rising to £31,332 (£11,519.60 – £12,532.80 pro rata) - inclusive of £3,827 Inner London Weighting FTE per annum Location: Kensington and Chelsea Change4Life Service office (W10, London) At least one days a week in the office for home visits and there is flexibility to work from home remotely. Hours: Part-time 14.8 We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details. Contract: Permanent Are you a highly motivated, passionate self-starter with excellent communication skills? We are looking for an experienced Young Carers Practitioner with an impressive track record of delivering high quality 1 to 1 services to deliver the RBKC Young Carers Personal Budgets service. You will strive for excellent standards, robustly ensuring a quality, outcomes driven and accessible service. By joining Family Action’s Young Carers Personal Budgets Service you will ensure holistic health promotion and a community-based approach to improve and promote the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of young carers by awarding a personal budget for a physical activity of their choice. Your impact Collaborating with young people and their families, referrers and physical activity providers and promoting co-production with young people, you will provide 1:1 personalised support to young carers to access a physical activity of their choice which will positively impact their physical health and emotional wellbeing. You will manage existing partnerships and provide outreach to other RBKC young people’s services to support regular referrals into our service and will also sign-post the young people to relevant services when wider issues that impact safeguarding, health and wellbeing are identified. Your skills You will bring your knowledge and experience of working with families and young people to complete a brief young carers assessment and collaboratively identify the physical activity of their choice to access through the small grant service. The post requires an ability to manage your own caseload and support the deputy team manager in completing the data monitoring. Multi-agency working, excellent communication, empathy, safeguarding knowledge and system recording skills are vital for this role. With a client-facing approach you will be passionate about engaging our service users in all aspects of our work including co-production. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview. What will we offer you? We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. All roles in Family Action are open to a discussion about possible flexible working options, subject to business needs, and all new starters will have the right to make a flexible working request from day one of employment. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. You’ll join an established, supportive and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning and has the needs of children and families at its core. Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced DBS with barred list for adults and children. Benefits: - an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays - up to 6% matched-pension contributions - flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment - enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions - eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers - cycle to work scheme - investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect. To Apply: · Download and submit a completed Application Form linked (link in advert document) to the Family Action job advert • Closing Date: Sunday, 19th January 2025 at 23:59 • To learn more about Family Action: Careers • To help us fulfil our commitment to diversity and promoting equal opportunities: complete our anonymous Equality & Diversity Monitoring Information survey Interviews will be arranged in the second week of January, can arranged face to face or virtually, with slots throughout the working day and early/late slots available. For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Austra Welburn (full email located on advert document) Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion: We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview. Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reason