Senior Practitioner, Family Based Care - The Drumbrae Library Hub - EDN28912

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Senior Practitioner, Foster Care Team
The Drumbrae Library Hub

Salary: £42,717 - £50,550
Hours: 36 per week

This post is within the Specialist Disability Foster Care Team.

We require a motivated, experienced individual to support and sustain a flexible range of family-based care placements to meet the needs of children and young people, aged from birth to twenty-one years of age who live with a range of complex needs. The successful candidate will demonstrate an enhanced ability in the recruitment, assessment and supervision of carers.

The successful applicant will demonstrate an enhanced ability to manage, with support, a range of complexities within their casework. The successful applicant will support the application of The Service Improvement Plan. An ability to support and facilitate carer training is essential.

The successful candidate should evidence significant experience in children and families settings and be competent in supporting carers to provide a high standard of care to children and young people who live with a range of complex health and development needs. Any applicant must be able to demonstrate an understanding and application of Regulations, Policy and Legislation relevant to foster care.

The successful candidate will;

- Undertake the recruitment, preparation, and assessment of carers.

- Develop and deliver training programmes for foster carers.

- Manage existing carers and ensure service delivery meets the needs relating to children and young people in foster care living with complex health and developmental needs.

- Will develop and sustain effective working relationships with Practice Team colleagues and other professionals to ensure the services provided by Family Based Care are responsive to need and at a high standard.

- To take an active role in the Service Improvement Plan and demonstrate leadership skills and qualities which support delivery.

- To support safeguarding of children and young people demonstrating experience and knowledge of child protection.

- To support the FBC Intake duty service and demonstrate an ability to lead day to day practices and decision making.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

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To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

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Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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