Family Beginnings are looking for:
- 1 full time day practitioner
We are excited to offer an amazing opportunity for a daytime practitioner to join our highly experienced and dedicated team, with the main goal of keeping families and their babies together through support and assessment.
Our 5 family Residential Centre provides around-the-clock support and assessment to parents and their children for a placement period of 12-14 weeks. The parent/family will be assessed on their ability to provide safe and consistent care to their baby using a variety of methods and programmes. Assessments will be completed by our in-house social workers, while the family practitioners' daily logs, support sessions, and observations will contribute towards the parent's overall progress.
The shift pattern is 12 hours - 7:45 am to 19:45, working 4 days one week (Mon/Tue/Sat/Sun) and three the next (Wed/Thu/Fri) on a two-week rolling rota. Full-time probation period required, which, where successful, will lead to a permanent contract.
Bank shifts are also available and will be called upon when required.
The role of family practitioner will include but is not limited to:
1. Being the allocated family practitioner to families on-site.
2. Providing specialist support and advice with parenting such as care, safety, bonding, and attachment, and attending solo and group activities.
3. Contributing to the assessment of parenting capacity with accurate log keeping and direct in-person and distanced observations through the use of CCTV.
4. Safeguarding vulnerable children and their parents.
5. Supporting the placement.
6. Upholding the handbook, statement of purpose, and ethos of the centre.
7. Medication management.
8. Reducing risk in all aspects of daily life, inside and outside of the home to children and their parents.
9. Supporting parents who have experienced, but not limited to; trauma, substance use, criminality, mental health difficulties, domestic abuse, and parents who may have learning needs.
10. Attending meetings with wider agencies.
11. Making referrals to wider agencies.
12. Using a variety of direct and distanced observations to inform and support.
13. Supporting parents and their children in-house and to access the community.
14. Providing community outreach and aftercare.
15. Encouraging safe long-term family outcomes.
16. Adhering to the Residential Centre and Minimum Standards.
17. Promoting health and safety in the workplace and abiding by all the company's policies and procedures and the staff handbook.
Practitioners will ideally have:
1. A Level 3 in Children, Young People and their Families; or similar.
2. 2 sources of reference.
3. Previous experience in the social care field.
4. Current DBS or agree to one being completed.
5. Be available to start in the coming weeks.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £13.00-£15.00 per hour
Additional pay:
* Yearly bonus
Benefits:
* Casual dress
* Company events
* Health & wellbeing programme
Schedule:
* Day shift
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 21/01/2025
Expected start date: 27/01/2025
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