Salary: £30,021.00 - £37,684.00 per annum (SCP 23C –31C). Salary is dependent on qualifications and experience.
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 37 hours per week
Who are we?
Kibble is Scotland’s specialist provider of services for at risk children and young people. By providing a range of integrated services, we help build positive futures for children and young people aged 5 plus, with complex social, emotional, and educational needs.
Job Purpose:
The post involves direct working with young people who, because of adversity or trauma, are unable to remain at home and who, at the instruction of a Children’s Hearing or a Court, must be accommodated by Kibble.
We seek people who have a strong commitment to caring for children/young people, who understand developmental trauma, and who are resilient, reflective, and patient. You should be able to practice in a trauma-informed way, providing children/young people with a sense of safety and connectedness and teaching coping skills in the face of complex challenging behaviour.
This post will offer the successful candidate stability, with guaranteed hours, and the benefit of varied work. It is ideally suited to someone who has flexibility throughout the working week and weekends to work both early and back shifts. The varied shift pattern provides opportunity for the successful candidate to interact with a range of different employees and children and young people at Kibble.
Main Duties:
The direct work with children and young people follows a general pattern that must be tailored to the needs and requirements for each individual. This pattern involves 3 main areas.
The Care Programme
The Child and Youth Care Worker will:
* Have direct responsibility for the care and development of a number of children and young people, with each child or young person having a placement programme involving social and educational targets, which will be regularly reviewed.
* Require to liaise with all relevant members of the multi-disciplinary team within Kibble to ensure a mutual understanding of these targets and to monitor and facilitate their achievement.
* Require to liaise with the area team social worker to ensure a mutual understanding of the care plan including social and educational targets and a linkage between these targets and the tasks being undertaken by the social worker.
* Meet with the parent(s) or other relative(s) of the child or young person to ensure family contact is continuing, seeking their co-operation in achieving social and educational targets, and ensuring that home leave is viable and supported. Therefore, a driver’s licence is desirable for this post.
Recording and Reporting
* The Child and Youth Care Worker is responsible for ensuring that the placement plan for the child or young person is recorded in the format required by the organisation.
* The Child and Youth Care Worker is responsible for ensuring that the reports required by the Reporter to the Children’s Panel or the Clerk of the Court or the Procurator Fiscal and the area team social worker are provided within the required timescales.
Worker Profile
The Child and Youth Care Worker will be able to:
* Relate to children and young people in a way that promotes their trust and involvement in meeting the requirements of the Children’s Hearing or Court and the social and educational targets of the care plan.
* Respond positively and calmly to challenging behaviour.
* Understand the dynamics of relationships between the young people in the house and in the community, ensuring that action is taken to stop bullying, prevent isolation, and avoid unhelpful friendships or pressure for engaging in risk-taking behaviours.
* Establish relationships with young people within which incidents of physical, emotional, or mental abuse can be revealed.
* Understand the roles and responsibilities of all individuals, groups, and organisations involved in the care of the young people both within and outside the organisation.
* Work unsupervised and on own initiative.
* Co-work with representatives from other agencies e.g. social work, educational psychologist, psychiatrist, providing clear representation of the needs and progress of the child or young person.
* Display knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation, stages of human growth and development, causes and outcomes of challenging behaviour, and dynamics of inter-personal relationships.
* Manage and motivate self in forming and sustaining relationships with children and young people, in working with internal and external colleagues, and in undertaking administrative and allied duties.
What qualification and experience are we looking for?
* HNC in Social Care, SVQ Level 3 in Care or equivalent, or the ability to undertake the HNC and SVQ Level 3 Social Care.
* Experience of working with children and young people or providing care/support to vulnerable people is desirable.
* Experience of working within the social care sector is desirable.
* Experience of working within residential childcare is desirable.
* Be willing to work in any service across the Kibble Group including the Safe Centre (Secure Care) or Community Based Services.
* Residential Childcare is regulated work and if successful you will be required to register with the SSSC, who are the workforce regulator, within their applied timeframes. Preference will be given to those candidates who are already eligible for unconditional registration.
* Possess a full driving licence and be willing and able to drive school transport is desirable.
Safe Crisis Training (SCM)
Successful candidates will require a level of fitness to be able to carry out SCM.
Notes:
1. This job outline reflects the main tasks and responsibilities discharged by the post holder at the present time, however, Kibble reserves the right to alter or amend the content of this job outline to reflect changes to the job or services provided, while maintaining the overall character and level of responsibility for the post.
2. All duties must be carried out in a way that promotes equality of opportunity, dignity, and respect for all individuals and which is consistent with Kibble’s stated policy on equal opportunities.
3. The successful candidate will be subject to PVG Scheme Membership. Having previous convictions will not automatically disbar you from working at Kibble (with the exception of offences against children or other vulnerable groups) and every case is taken on an individual basis.
4. The successful candidate will be required to undertake Safe Crisis Management (SCM) training and will require a level of fitness to be able to carry out SCM. The successful candidate must be able to participate fully in this training and be prepared to put this training into practice.
5. Appointments will be subject to a twelve-month probationary period.
Benefits: Pension, holidays (up to 40 days per year), and employee benefits including cash4health, employee assistance programme, free parking, free meals, plus access to onsite physio.
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