Young Persons Practitioner

Job Description

Action for ChildrenSalary:Up to- £24,800 per annumContract/Hours: Fix Term Contract- Until August 2023Full time - 37 hours a week Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm and Friday 9am to 4.30pm. Flexibility to work on occasions to 7pm.Location: Derby, DerbyshireFull Time37 hours a weekPerks:Annual leave of 29 days (pro-rata) PLUS public holidays, annual staff awards, 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on ourcareersportal.Closing Date:Midnight on Monday 16th May ifwe receive a high number of applications, we may have to close earlier than advertised.About UsAt Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood.Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard, and campaign to bring lasting change to theirlives.About the Role:Action for Children were commissioned in 2020, by Derbyshire and Derby City Councils and Derby and Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group to deliver an innovative new service. The service aims to improve placement stability for looked after children andto reduce the number of children whose emotional needs are met outside the area by delivering therapeutic interventions locally, close to where they live.Support will focus on children in care with the most complex needs and with significant adverse childhood experiences, including those with sexually harmful behaviours. The service will use trauma informed practice and attachment theory and provide a rangeof evidence-based therapies including Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Theraplay, PACE and systemic therapy.The service will operate from 9am to 5pm with the potential need to occasionally work until 7pm.As a Young Persons Practitioner you will work closely with Lead Therapeutic Practitioners and provide trauma informed 1:1 sessions accustomed to the young persons needs which could include emotional regulation, identity needs, managing relationships, behaviouraland educational needs. You will be supporting young people within their placements and therefore will regularly feed into their care plans while liaising with other professionals and agencies to ensure safeguarding procedures are met at all times.You will receive monthly supervision with a Practice manager but also engage in monthly team reflective practice, here you can explore some of your cases with the guidance and support of a clinical psychologist and an experienced team of therapists and therapeuticsocial workers.The role will also require you to help set up and lead on group work and the participation of young people, which is a new and exciting development within our service.The role will also require you to support Therapeutic Practitioners with the co delivery of training.How youll make a difference:

• By being responsible for delivering high quality therapeutic intervention to children and young people with complex mental health needs.
• By being part of our multi-disciplinary team and working as part of this team approach is an important aspect of this role.

What Youll Bring:Our job description for the Young Persons Practitioner outlines the requirements of the role but the must-haves are:

• NVQ level 3 in childcare, family support or health and social care or equivalent experience
• Experience working within a social care or health environment with vulnerable young people aged 8-18 and families
• Experience of working within a multi-agency environment
• Understanding of and experience of applying safeguarding procedures
• Experience of delivering outcome-based programmes or initiatives
• Experience of completing assessments, planning and reviews to ensure positive outcomes
• Knowledge of PACE and attachment theory (desirable)
• Experience of working therapeutically with young people (desirable)
• Experience of delivering training (desirable)
• Experience of delivering group work with young people (desirable)

Working here is so much more than a job. Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, wed love to hear from you.We work together to reach our vision of safe and happy childhoods.Adiverse workforce enriches the lives of the children and young people we workwithand we welcome applications from everyone. We value and celebrate our differences and as an inclusiveworkplace we wanteveryone tobe themselves.We arecommittedto safer recruitment practices to protectourservice users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have anunderstandingof andcommitmenttosafeguardingbest-practice.We cant wait to hear from youstay safe andhappy.ApplicationProcess:There are 5 sections for you to complete, Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.TopTip...Refer to the job description when writing your SupportingStatement..Talent Pool: Wed like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up but do let us know if youd rather we didnt.Contact:Jessica Keen on or email .uk who will be happy to support with your application.Get to know us a little betterbycheckingout our socials onTwitter,Linkedin,FacebookorYouTube.