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Role:               Children and Young Persons Practitioner - Refuge

Based:             Basildon (multiple sites)

Rate:                   £18 ph umb

Start Date:      ASAP

Duration:        Temp

Hours:             35 hours per week

Our client, a registered Charity, providing domestic abuse services across the south of Essex, is looking for a CYP Practitioner to join their team.

Synopsis of duties:

Create a safe and welcoming environment for all children in the refuge setting. 
Ensure the ‘voice of the child’ is considered in all assessments, support plans, and advocacy. 
Complete robust risk and therapeutic assessments for all children in the refuge setting, ensuring all their individual needs are identified and addressed. 
Actively manage a caseload of children and young people resident in the organisation’s refuge settings, working with individuals to process and recover from their experiences. 
Work closely with mothers in the refuge, supporting them to be an effective parent, meeting the needs of their children, and ensuring safeguarding concerns are identified and addressed. 
Support the planning and development of the Children’s Services offer. 
Deliver weekly support through one-to-one sessions and group work, utilising play and other interventions as required. 
Take an active role in leading play activities during school holidays and after school and provide fun and creative activities and opportunities for children and their mothers together. 
Advocate for the child to access nursery/school places or other educational settings. 
Work in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies who are involved in the family,  attending meetings including case conferences, core groups, and teams around the child as necessary.  
Deliver parent and child group work programs such as Women’s Aid’s ‘You, Me, Mum’ and ‘Helping Hands’ programme.
Provide support and advice on parenting to service users and colleagues, reporting concerns via the organisation’s safeguarding procedures. 
Arrange day trips and events for families during school holidays.
Attend and transport families to day events, where required.
Ensure the timely and accurate input of service user data into the organisation’s case management system and all other administrative duties associated with the role
Undertake risk assessments for all activities to compliances with health and safety requirements.
Work in a manner that ensures cultural sensitivity, and addresses discrimination and other barriers to accessing service.
Represent the organisation at external partnership meetings, maintaining a high level of professional conduct at all times and endorsing the wider Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) agenda in public forums. 
Identify any safeguarding issues within the services for adults at risk and/or children and follow organisational safeguarding procedures to ensure the swift reporting of concerns to social services. 
Ensure all matters of Health and Safety and well-being relating to staff and service users are implemented to the requisite standard and checked as required. 
Regularly update knowledge around domestic abuse, stalking, and the VAWG context 
Participate in regular management supervision to ensure the highest standards of support and advocacy. 
Maintain strict organisational confidentiality, professional boundaries, and security procedures.Essential Requirements:

Experience of working with children/young people/adults experiencing domestic violence and abuse
Experience in managing a caseload of children and young people, assessing their needs, and formulating support plans
Experience in planning play activities for children and young people
Experience in identifying safeguarding concerns and reporting concerns in line with local procedures
DBS on the update service
Available immediately
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