About the role
Strengthening Families is part of our Children and Family Support Services. Using a multi-agency approach, the service offers intensive support to children, young people and families with identified complex needs to strengthen parenting to support and empower them to achieve good outcomes for their children. The service delivers a range of interventions from direct work with families using an Early Help approach, to parenting and domestic abuse groups, and works with partners to create a supportive team around the family to help them to sustain the changes.
Do you have the passion and drive to support practitioners to deliver high quality interventions to families?
Are you determined and passionate about improving the lives of vulnerable children through supporting their families to change?
Are you able to lead, manage, motivate, and develop a team of practitioners?
Do you have direct experience of working effectively with children and their families facing challenging situations to achieve positive outcomes?
We're thrilled to announce an opportunity for an adept individual to step into the role of Senior Practitioner within the Strengthening Families Team within the Children and Family Support Service.
This position covers West Northamptonshire (Mainly the Northampton area).
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 25th September 2024
For an informal discussion please contact Robin Milner on 07825358384 or Robin.Milner@nctrust.co.uk or John Kelly on 07810854109
What will you be doing?
You will lead and supervise a team of practitioners who hold a caseload and deliver high-level complex interventions to children and families.
Your professional leadership and support will help the team deliver safe practice and effectively manage their workloads to agreed standards and timeframes. You will need to be highly knowledgeable about the complex issues children, young people and families face and be able to work collaboratively with partners to deliver bespoke and evidence informed support to families, brokering long term and sustainable change.
You will support the team to deliver services that are responsive to the voices and lived experience of children using evidence-based interventions that improve outcomes across a range of needs.
About you
You will be highly organised and have substantial experience and skills in leading, managing, motivating, and developing a team of high performing professionals providing intensive family support in Targeted Support/Early Help, Social Work, Education or Relevant Health Discipline.
You will have a deep understanding of the complex issues faced by children and young people in the current climate, and what works to create and maintain safe, stable and sustained outcomes.
You will have proven experience in supervising or supporting staff to deliver whole family interventions.
You will have proven experience of leading with a focus on quality assurance, partnerships and ensuring effective, best practice.
You will have extensive, hands-on experience in preventative work with children and families facing escalating needs, with demonstrated ability to assess risks, safeguard, and intervene effectively.
When applying please ensure your supporting statement covers how you fulfil the essential criteria set out in the person specification as this will be used for shortlisting. You will need to provide a full employment history including any gaps since leaving full time education
Our benefits
We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.
We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:
- 28 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
- Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days annual leave
- Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
- Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
- Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- Subsidised town centre car parking scheme
About us
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children’s Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.
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