ID: 1685 Senior Practitioner, LifeSkills Intensive
Service: LifeSkills
Salary:
- Starting at £28,884 FTE per annum, rising to £31,698 FTE per annum (pro rata for corresponding part-time hours).
- Additionally, £480 home-based allowance FTE per annum
Location: Stockton-on-Tees/Middlesbrough
Hours: 18.5 - 25 hours per week available per role
We offer flexible working arrangements – but regular face to face delivery is required. Please see below for more details.
Contract: Permanent
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding LifeSkills Intensive team. You will offer supervision and management oversight to support workers primarily in your geographical area. You will be able to retain your practice experience and hold a small caseload and will be part of a wider supportive LifeSkills team.
LifeSkills supports individuals and families to build their confidence, social networks, financial and employability skills. LifeSkills Intensive provides 1-1 support to those that are furthest away from employment, education and training. This service is funded by our corporate partnership with Barclays.
Main Responsibilities:
· To line manage and supervise support workers in your specific geographical area.
· Support with the management of referrals into the service, both in terms of service promotion and also decision making /allocation.
· To oversee and develop the service offer and ensure that this is having a positive impact.
· To hold a small caseload, delivering regular face-to-face support.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
· Experience of supervising, coaching ,mentoring or supporting practitioners
· A sound understanding of safeguarding issues.
· Strong communication skills and aptitude for building relationships
· Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service –Enhanced
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holiday pro rata
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
· Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
· Closing Date: Sunday 15th February, 11.59pm
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Claire Berwick or Kirsty Treen
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
Registered Charity
501 - 1000
Family Action is an award-winning national charity working from the heart of local communities across England and Wales.
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Company Description
At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career.
Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'. We achieve this in two ways. First we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.
Beacon Victim Care Service
Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner has appointed Catch22 to deliver the Beacon Victim Care Service across the county. Catch22 Victim Services provide tailored support to individuals, to empower them to cope, and to recover, from the impact of crime.
Job Description
As Beacon Team Leader, you will be a member of the local management team within the victim service, managing a team of Beacon Support Workers as part of a multi-disciplinary team ensuring the effective delivery of end to end support for victims in line with contractual expectations. You will provide line management support, supervision and guidance to the team in line with Catch22’s policies and procedures.
You will ensure that victims receive a high quality service through the effective management of the team’s performance, maintaining organisational and professional standards expected of the victim service. You will ensure that victims’ needs are reviewed and met in line with the key targets and contractual expectations.
You will maintain a close working relationship with police partners, statutory services and voluntary agencies ensuring relationships are effectively managed and pathways of support for victims remain seamless to provide a high quality and consistent service. You will provide management oversight of presenting risks and needs ensuring matters are managed and escalated appropriately and actions taken expediently as deemed appropriate to the presenting situation.
Qualifications
As Beacon Team Leader, with responsibility for the effective running of the Victim Service on a day-to-day basis, you will have a great opportunity to be involved in a number of varied projects working at the heart of the delivery of our strategic ambition. This post currently (can change subject to contract changes) will be managing team members who are working with:
Children and Young people affected by Crime including Domestic Abuse and Sexual Abuse
Families affected by Child on Parent Violence
Anti-social behaviour victims
Good will look like the following:
A confident, professional, and creative individual with a ‘can-do’ approach
Some experience/skills or qualifications around working with children and young people.
Responsive to pressure and change – flexible and adaptable to sustain performance.
Ability to build and manage relationships, share knowledge and skills to deliver shared goals
Working collaboratively across the whole of Catch22 to ensure we make best use of our wealth of skills and experience.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence key stakeholders and retain confidentiality at all times.
Additional information
Those interested in applying for this opportunity should review the Job Description & Person Specification to find out more. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please see our contact information on the Candidate Help Page. Please use reference REF3754J in your message so that we can identify the opportunity.
Salary: £32,620 per annum
Hours of work: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Flexibility: Flexible working options available, where service delivery allows - blended approach of office working, home working, and occasionally supporting with visits across Hertfordshire.
Closing Date: 11th February (Could close earlier if sufficient quality applications received)
Interviews: TBC
To Apply: Please provide your CV and cover letter, along with the completion of the screening questions to express your interest in this role.
Screening: Successful admission to post subject to enhanced DBS check, police vetting check, and employer Right To Work in the UK check. Please note, in the interest of safer recruitment and ensuring that applicants are a right fit for the role, submitted applications must contain a CV, satisfactory responses to the screening questions, and information detailing interest in the role, to be considered for this position.
*Vetting and Clearance Requirements: NPPV 2 (Police Vetting), Enhanced DBS check.
*Access to work is 25 minutes from King's Cross Station.
Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
AI generated applications are not acceptable and could lead to a disqualification of your current and future applications across Catch22 jobs. In order to ensure that applications are fair, genuine, and representative of the candidate applying, our teams may use a number of tools to identify occurrences where candidates have not given an honest response during the application process.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
Within the Justice hub at Catch22 we are extremely proud of our strong focus and track record in developing our people. As of September 2022, 73% of our management group have progressed from frontline roles within Catch22, which allows us to offer progression opportunities for staff under the leadership of managers with frontline experience.
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