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Children's Home Bank Staff Practitioner

Employer
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Location
Greenwich, London (Greater)
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
30 Sep 2020

Job Details

We are recruiting Bank Children’s Home Practitioners!

Please note that applications will be reviewed weekly with interviews being held within approximately 2 weeks of submitted applications. Once we have appointed to all vacancies we may close this advert before the closing date. 

You are advised to submit your application as early as possible.

“Thank you for your interest in joining the Broadwalk Children’s Home team.  Broadwalk Children’s Home, consistently rated as “Outstanding” by Ofsted, offers short and medium term residential care for up to five young people aged between 11 – 18 as well as an outreach service.

Here in Greenwich Children’s Services we believe that all children and young people regardless of their background or circumstances, should have a happy and fulfilled childhood where they learn, belong, grow and achieve so that they enter adulthood ready, willing and able to achieve their highest potential.

Our ambition is to ensure we provide effective, efficient and safe services informed by the views and experiences of children, young people, their families, staff and our partners.  We want to work in purposeful collaboration and involvement with children, young people and families rather than working for or doing to people.

To achieve this, we need skilled, competent, confident, compassionate, motivated and creative staff who want to work in a culture of continuous learning, mutual support and challenge.

If this sounds like you then we would like to hear from you. 

Debbie Forde, Registered Manager

Come and join our team!

  • Are you passionate about improving outcomes for young people and driven to make a difference?
  • Are you motivated to learn?
  • Do you want a job that is rewarding and gives you a real sense of job satisfaction and fulfilment? 

We are looking for Bank Children’s Home Practitioners to assist, support and encourage young people to achieve their potential by responding to their individual needs and providing a safe, nurturing, caring and homely environment where issues and concerns affecting both their past and their future can be positively addressed and supported.  Through outreach support, our Practitioners also support young people and families with multiple and complex needs and deliver Staying Close provision for care leavers. 

What’s it like to be part of the Broadwalk Team?

What Team members say:

“I am just as enthusiastic today as the first day I started. I love what this home stands for”

“We are young people-focused: nurturing and enabling them to be the best they can be” 

What other professionals say:

“Going above and beyond to help young people”

“Committed and passionate”

“An excellent place for children looked after, and an excellent team”

“I continue to be impressed by this team and the impressive care and support it provides to young people”

What skills and experience will I need?

Along with a good working knowledge of the Children Act and the Quality Standards and Regulations for Children’s Homes, you will have significant experience of direct work with children and young people.

You will have the ability to develop positive and supportive relationships with young people and their families, carers and other professionals.  You will also have the skills to create a homely and appropriate environment for young people from a range of social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

You will need to be reliable, flexible and prepared to work unsociable hours, including evenings, weekends, bank holidays and sleep ins.

How will we support you?

We are committed to creating an organisational culture that encourages learning and development and we recognise the importance of providing all the necessary training and development for our workforce so that they can help children and young people achieve the best outcomes possible.

What next?

If you feel you have the necessary background, experience and skills to undertake this role we would like to hear from you.

Please include a supporting statement with your application, addressing how your skills, knowledge and experience would enable you to meet all aspects of the post, as outlined in the job description and person specification. 

For an informal discussion about this role please contact Debbie Forde, Registered Manager on 020 8921 4375. 

Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk. As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974)

All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated

A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application. If you have a disability and are unable to meet some of the job requirements specifically because of your disability, please address this in your application. If you meet all the other criteria, you will be shortlisted and we will explore jointly with you if there are ways in which the job can be changed to enable you to meet the requirements.

Company

Why work for the Royal Borough of Greenwich?

The Royal Borough Of Greenwich supports equality and diversity in the workplace. The borough has a clear commitment to the LGBT community, mental health issues, race equality and disability.

Greenwich offers a diverse range of roles, from junior to senior positions, spanning service sectors from children’s services to engineering.

With the main council offices based in the heart of Woolwich, employees also benefit from an excellent transport links, while central London is just 20 minutes away.

Excellent benefits

  • Up to 31 days leave per year.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Developing opportunities to maximise employee’s potential.
  • Annual season ticket loan.
  • Greenwich One Card which entitles employees to discounts at local businesses.

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