Closing date: 29 December 2024
The Derbyshire Leaving Care Service are looking for a
Part Time Leaving Care Worker to join our very passionate, nurturing, inclusive and committed Leaving Care Service
. The post sits with the North East & Bolsover and Amber Valley Leaving Care Team.
You will be assisting in the delivery of an efficient and effective care leaver service embedding Derbyshire’s operating model and a never give up approach into all leaving care practice to improve outcomes for Derbyshire children and young people.
You will be embedding and strengthening our current offer to care leavers and will be working intensively with our children in care as they start their transition towards adulthood and interdependence.
While effectively managing a caseload of 16 - 25 year olds, to facilitate positive transitions into adulthood and provide support, guidance and information in a wide range of areas including health, disability, education, training, careers, employment, accommodation, managing finance, etc, ensuring key statutory outcomes are achieved.
What will I be doing:
- Maintain our corporate responsibility, our positive outcomes and our culture of never giving up on our care experienced young people
- Work with a Social Pedagogy, Systemic and trauma informed approach; supporting our young people holistically alongside our partners and locality social work teams with an aspirational approach for young people’s futures
- Maintain a child centred approach while promoting care experienced young people’s transitions into interdependence
- Represent the service and our care experienced young people locally, regionally and nationally
- You will be working within the statutory guidelines and expectations for care experienced young people and children in care
- You will have a focus on education, employment and training designed to help young people of all abilities choose the appropriate route to make the most of their opportunities when they leave care
What skills and experience do you need to have:
- Experience of working with children in care and care experienced young people
- A real passion and commitment to do more and better for our young people
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships with young people, workers, management and partners
- A strong advocate for care experienced young people and children in care
- Ability to reflect on own practice and development enabling flexible and thoughtfulpractice and positive change
What we offer you:
- Manageable case loads
- Two thriving office and young person hubs
- Visible, supportive and determined manager’s
- Diverse range of cases providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career
- Excellent supervision and a supportive peer network
- Access to an excellent range of training and development opportunities,
- Fantastic opportunities to undertake further formal qualifications and career progression through our career pathways
If you would like to talk to someone informally about this post, please contact abigail.lee2@derbyshire.gov.uk and claire.connolly-weston@derbyshire.gov.uk
What benefits do we offer you?
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- generous annual leave, sick pay and flexi-time scheme
- travel expenses
- discount on leisure centre memberships
- free car parking at most sites
- an in-house counselling service
- occupational health service
- access to sessions with a trained physiotherapist
- cycle to work scheme
- DBS check undertaken and paid for by us
- Guaranteed incremental annual pay increases
Provisional Interview Date: Mid January 2025
