Contract to start ASAP

Duration: 12 weeks with a possible extension.

Responsibilities

Use appropriate techniques and best practice to make ongoing assessments of allocated cases to reflect individual circumstances (including, where appropriate, mental health and/or speech and language assessments) including assessment of risk, risk of harm, risk of serious harm and vulnerability, to ensure that the supervision of/work with young people is as effective as possible.

To deliver a range of interventions and activities where required.

To keep accurate and timely records and to provide information, written assessments, reports and statements to support other service professionals, managers and the courts (or other official bodies). In specific circumstances present reports and statements to the Courts and Referral Panels to enable Magistrates and Judges to make judicial decisions.

To work with service providers, independent and voluntary sectors, to facilitate the provision of a needs-led service which best meets requirements within the available resources.

To establish appropriate professional relationships with service users, their families, carers, other professionals and agencies to enable effective partnerships in the provision of services.

To maintain a child centred approach focussing on the need to manage risk of harm.

To build upon existing knowledge and practice with research and training to develop individual skills and work with Senior Professional /Team Leaders to appraise new approaches and to embed improvements in service provision and delivery.

In specialist social care functions e.g. YOT, may be required to develop expertise in relation to particular aspects of the work e.g. harmful sexual behaviour, Restorative Justice, working with victims, volunteers and communities, child exploitation, domestic abuse.

To lead and manage Intervention Workers to ensure that services are delivered to young people in accordance with National Standards, applicable statutory requirements and best practice.

Lead, manage and review the quality of work delivered to seek to ensure that the children/young persons are assisted to reach their full potential.

Understand, uphold and promote the aims of the councils equality, diversity and inclusion policies; health, safety and wellbeing of self and others; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.

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