Role: Lead Practitioner

Location: North Devon

Hours: Permanent, Part Time 22.5 hours per week

Salary: DOE £30,200 - £34,900 pro rata

Are you a self - motivated, organised and passionate Practitioner? If so, you are in luck as we are currently recruiting for a Lead Practitioner who takes great pride in providing the best level of support to their team to join us at the Northern Devon Children's Centres. This is an exciting and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact.

How do Action for Children work?

Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children across the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of 370,000 children, young people and their families - but for every child who needs help to get help, there's plenty more to do. That's where you come in.

Northern Devon Children's centre provides Targeted Early Help, to the whole family from pregnancy through to aged 8, when families most need support using the "team around the family" approach.

Early Help means taking action to support a child, young person or their family early in the life of a problem, as soon as it emerges. This can be provided in the most complex of circumstances as well as the simplest.

As a Lead Practitioner, it will be your primary focus to create and develop safeguarding practice across our services. You will be required to work a Friday and the remaining hours to be worked flexibly over the week.

How will you make a difference?

Encourage, coach and support our team to ensure the effective delivery of our services.
Support and work with Managers to provide clear and responsive practical leadership, supervision, and promote the highest professional standards in Social Care.
Identify and evaluate national trends to develop and deliver professional development opportunities to staff teams.
Organise and implement audit plans.
Ensure that the responsibility of safeguarding is a fundamental element throughout all the services and that safeguarding principals are embedded in all procedures, practices, professional advice, decisions and support.
Maintain effective working relationships with other professionals.
Act as a peripatetic manager to suit the needs of the service.

*Please see Job Description for a more detailed description of the job role

What will you need?

A degree qualification in relevant field or 2 years previous experience in similar post.
Strong safeguarding knowledge.
Strong Multi Agency experience
A Positive and a Can-do attitude is a MUST.
A driver's licence.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Attention to detail.
Be able to work well alone as well as in a team.
Be adaptive to change.
A strong work ethic and the ability to work in a fast - paced and challenging environment.
Strong experience of delivering training.

What are the benefits?

As an appreciation towards our staff, we offer:

An excellent company pension scheme
Minimum of 29 days Annual Leave (pro rata for part time staff)
Season ticket travel loans
Childcare vouchers
Professional development with access to 100's of courses available from the first day
Discounts at major high street retailers
Flexible family friendly Policies

(And that's just to list a few)

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to vulnerable children's lives and to build a fulfilling and meaningful career with a leading UK children's charity. So don't delay, apply today!

If you would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact Ewelina Suchocka on 07776657442.

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