View Vacancy -- Outreach & Peripatetic Residential Child Care Practitioner

Do you have what it takes to make a positive difference in the lives of children and young people?

Are you a hard working and resilient individual who is able to engage with and emotionally support children and young people?

An opportunity has arisen to recruit a full time Outreach and Peripatetic Residential Child Care Practitioner (RCCP) to support children’s residential placements throughout RCT.  Working across five residential children’s homes, you will have the opportunity to actively engage in a wide variety of work to support individual children and young people, and group living environments. Candidates will be required to travel independently for this role given the geographical locations of our residential home’s.

 As an Outreach RCCP, you will be part of a large experienced residential team, that provide safe, nurturing home’s for children and young people, led and supported by a Registered Manager’s, and experienced Senior staff.

Successful applicants will be committed to improving the lives of children with complex needs and those who have experienced childhood trauma. Providing care and support across our residential placements, you will need to be motivated to work creatively with a high level of active engagement in activities and direct work. You will be supported and trained to practice in a therapeutic environment, utilising the Trauma Recovery Model of care. Much of your role will be spent supporting individuals to work through their individual experiences, with the goal of aiding recovery and building resilience, to achieve their personal goals.

This will involve you providing emotional and physical support to enable children and young people to reach their full potential, sometimes in challenging situations. This will include working actively with those receiving a service, families and professionals to ensure care and support is personalised to meet individual needs.

To succeed in the role, you must be passionate, patient and committed to those you work with, and the professional standards of the role.

Candidates will need to demonstrate:

• Excellent communication skills
• Positivity and resilience
• A commitment to providing safe and caring environments for children and young people to learn and grow
• Compassion and Empathy, and an enthusiasm to promote individual choice
• The ability to invest in developing trusting relationships.
• An enthusiasm and commitment to learning
• An ability to work flexibly – Work patterns will include day afternoon and occasional nights, in addition to working weekends, bank holidays and sleep in duties.

You will be expected to hold, or be prepared to work towards the QCF Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People) or predecessor qualification NVQ Level 3 (Children and Young People). You will be registered with Social Care Wales, either on appointment, or following completion of the Induction Framework.

We recognise that working in Social Care is professionally and personally challenging and demands considerable levels of skill, commitment, and enthusiasm. We offer a dedicated in-house Learning and Development Centre which actively supports our staff to maintain their skills and Continuous Professional Development.

RCT Council employees also have access to a wide range of staff benefits which include:

• Successful applicants who do not hold the relevant qualification will be supported to achieve the QCF Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People)  within 2 years of appointment
• Successful applicants will receive fully funded necessary training and support to undertake the role, in addition to in house professional support
• 25 days Annual Leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounted LeisureForLife Membership
• Vectis Card (staff discount)
• Technology Purchase Scheme

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, Reservists or Spouses and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.