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CYP DAP (Refuge)
| Posting date: | 18 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,222.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 March 2025 |
| Location: | SS14 1SJ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Changing Pathways |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
MAIN DUTIES:
1. Create and safe and welcoming environment for all children residing
in the refuge setting.
2. Ensure the ‘voice of the child’ is considered in all assessment, support
plans and advocacy.
3. Complete robust risk and therapeutic assessments for all children in
the refuge setting, ensuring all their individual needs are identified
and addressed.
4. Actively manage a case load of children and young people resident in
the organisation’s refuge settings, working with individuals to process
and recover from their experiences.
5. 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.
6. Support the planning and development of the Children’s Services
offer.
7. Deliver weekly support through one to one sessions and group work,
utilising play and other interventions as required.
8. Take an active role in leading play activities during school holidays and
after school and to provide fun and creative activities and
opportunities for children and their mothers together.
9. Advocate for the child to access nursery/school places or other
educational settings.
10. Work in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies who are
involved in the family, attending meetings including case conferences,
core groups and team around the child as necessary.
11. Deliver parent and child group work programmes such as Women’s
Aid’s ‘You, Me, Mum’ and ‘Helping Hands’ programme.
12. Provide support and advice on parenting to service users and
colleagues, reporting concerns via the organisation’s safeguarding
procedures.
13. Arrange day trips and events for families during school holidays.
14. Attend and transport families to day events, where required.
15. 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
16. Undertake risk assessments for all activities to compliances with
health and safety requirement.
17. Work in a manner which ensures cultural sensitivity, addresses
discrimination and other barriers to accessing service.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20.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.
21. Regularly update knowledge around domestic abuse, stalking and the
wider VAWG context
22. Participate in regular management supervision to ensure the highest
standards of support and advocacy.
23.Maintain strict organisational confidentiality, professional boundaries
and security procedures.
GENERAL:
1. Identify own training and development needs and participate in all
training courses relevant to the Changing Pathway’s commitment to
providing high quality services.
2. Work at all times with due regard to the policies and procedures of
Changing Pathways, including financial regulations, participating in
their development and amendment where required.
3. Willingness to work outside normal working hours including evenings
and weekends and to participate in promotional, fundraising and
income generating events, activities and any other duties as may be
reasonably required by the organisation.
OTHER:
1. The post is subject to a DBS disclosure which will be carried out at
appointment of a candidate.
2. This post is subject to completion of a six-month probationary period.
3. Must be able to drive the Pool Vehicle to visit sites and work across
the whole contract area as required.
4. Must hold business cover insurance on their own vehicle.
5. Post is open to women only under the Equality Act 2010, schedule 9,
part 1
1. Create and safe and welcoming environment for all children residing
in the refuge setting.
2. Ensure the ‘voice of the child’ is considered in all assessment, support
plans and advocacy.
3. Complete robust risk and therapeutic assessments for all children in
the refuge setting, ensuring all their individual needs are identified
and addressed.
4. Actively manage a case load of children and young people resident in
the organisation’s refuge settings, working with individuals to process
and recover from their experiences.
5. 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.
6. Support the planning and development of the Children’s Services
offer.
7. Deliver weekly support through one to one sessions and group work,
utilising play and other interventions as required.
8. Take an active role in leading play activities during school holidays and
after school and to provide fun and creative activities and
opportunities for children and their mothers together.
9. Advocate for the child to access nursery/school places or other
educational settings.
10. Work in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies who are
involved in the family, attending meetings including case conferences,
core groups and team around the child as necessary.
11. Deliver parent and child group work programmes such as Women’s
Aid’s ‘You, Me, Mum’ and ‘Helping Hands’ programme.
12. Provide support and advice on parenting to service users and
colleagues, reporting concerns via the organisation’s safeguarding
procedures.
13. Arrange day trips and events for families during school holidays.
14. Attend and transport families to day events, where required.
15. 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
16. Undertake risk assessments for all activities to compliances with
health and safety requirement.
17. Work in a manner which ensures cultural sensitivity, addresses
discrimination and other barriers to accessing service.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20.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.
21. Regularly update knowledge around domestic abuse, stalking and the
wider VAWG context
22. Participate in regular management supervision to ensure the highest
standards of support and advocacy.
23.Maintain strict organisational confidentiality, professional boundaries
and security procedures.
GENERAL:
1. Identify own training and development needs and participate in all
training courses relevant to the Changing Pathway’s commitment to
providing high quality services.
2. Work at all times with due regard to the policies and procedures of
Changing Pathways, including financial regulations, participating in
their development and amendment where required.
3. Willingness to work outside normal working hours including evenings
and weekends and to participate in promotional, fundraising and
income generating events, activities and any other duties as may be
reasonably required by the organisation.
OTHER:
1. The post is subject to a DBS disclosure which will be carried out at
appointment of a candidate.
2. This post is subject to completion of a six-month probationary period.
3. Must be able to drive the Pool Vehicle to visit sites and work across
the whole contract area as required.
4. Must hold business cover insurance on their own vehicle.
5. Post is open to women only under the Equality Act 2010, schedule 9,
part 1
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