View Vacancy -- Senior Residential Child Care Practitioner

We are looking to recruit a Senior Residential Child Care Practitioner, for our home in Beddau. The home provides long term care for 5 young people between the ages of 11-17. The home works with children and young people who have experienced trauma and adverse childhood experiences, which has resulted in emotional and behavioural difficulties.

As a Senior Residential Child Care Practitioner, the role will require you to support and work alongside the Registered Manager in overseeing the development of staff and young people in placement, formulating and updating Personal Plans and Risk Assessments, carrying out supervisions and meeting the training needs of the staff team, to ensure continued compliance for registration. 

The successful candidate will need to have excellent communication and time management skills as you will be required to attend meetings and prepare detailed reports. You should have the capacity to work under pressure and take a problem solving approach to your work. You will need to be able to prioritise your own and others workloads, which will require the successful candidate to be self-motivated. You will also need to be able to motivate, direct and delegate to others where necessary.

The position will also require an ability to be responsive to the service needs. This may include changes to shift patterns and on call duties.

Requirements:

QCF Level 3 Health and Social Care (children and young people)

Or Predecessor Qualifications

Be registered with Social Care Wales

Knowledge of RISCA and related Child Care Legislation.

Knowledge of Trauma Recovery Model of Care

Knowledge of Child Protection

If you require further information please contact the Registered Manger, Nicola Howard on (01443) 202600.

Protecting children and vulnerable adults is a core responsibility of all staff appointed to the Council.

In addition to this safeguarding responsibility, the successful applicant for this role will also be subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

The Council values diversity in its workforce. We are committed to ensuring that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, transgender, including those with non-binary identities, religion or belief or pregnancy and maternity. We offer a number of staff networks for employees including the Allies Network, a Disability and Carers Network and Perthyn our LGBTQ+ Network.

An application submitted for this post in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

In view of the large number of Application Forms which are currently being submitted individual applications are not acknowledged. Consequently if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application is unsuccessful on this occasion. In which case you are thanked for the interest you have shown in applying for a position within the Council.

In support of the Council’s voluntary pledge to support the Armed Forces, the recruiter must always be prepared to ensure that applicants who have identified themselves as members of the Armed Forces including Service Leavers, Veterans or Reservists and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.