Role: Senior Children and Families Practitioner
Based: Herts (Waltham Cross)
Rate: £18 - £20 umb
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Temp for 3 months
Hours: 35 hours per week
Our client, a specialist Domestic Violence charity, is looking to recruit a Senior Children and Families Practitioner to lead a team of staff delivering support in safe accommodation to children and young people (CYP) focused on their needs and safety. To take a leading role where CYP Child Protection and Child in Need arrangements and to work collaboratively with adult support and programs staff to enhance parenting capacity, to rebuild family bonds and increase the resilience of the family as a whole. To act as the voice of the child or young person in refuge and within our planning work to respond to CYP as victims in their own right..
Synopsis of duties:
To ensure initial assessments with the CYP (where age appropriate) are undertaken within the specified timescales initiating plans to manage and address risks, needs and immediate safety. To ensure that services are delivered to th...