Key Worker (Haslemere Children’s Home)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: SC6
Salary: £32,925 – £33,957 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 13th October 2024
Interview Date: Week commencing 21st October 2024

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

We are looking for committed and passionate Key Workers who have the skills and qualities to support and manage procedures, to deliver the best outcomes for the children and young people of Haringey.
The role will encompass coaching, mentoring, and supporting the child/young person to encourage greater social inclusion, and to continually promote, safeguard and protect the welfare of each child/young person whilst acting as a positive role mode.
You will be responsible to complete comprehensive multi-agency assessments to identify each child/young person’s challenges and to provide clear guidance to ensure that the right exit strategy is sought and to work meticulously in the context of our AMBIT model. Other aspects of the role will include responsibility to plan, evaluate, implement, and review individual plans to enhance the capabilities and independence of the service users.
Ensuring clear communication with the young people is appropriate and assessing, needs and wishes of each young person, whilst being mindful of their complex needs and challenging behaviours.

About You

The ideal candidate will have had previous experience of working within a residential children’s home and will hold Health and Social Care Level 3 or the equivalent. You will need to demonstrate an understanding, knowledge, and ability to follow guidelines that ensures compliances with Health and Safety at Work, Data Protection, and other statutory requirements.
It is essential that you demonstrate a true passion for working with children. The role commands empathy and the ability to deal with sensitive issues, there you will need to exercise an in-depth understanding of social emotional and behavioural difficulties and how these may impact the lives of the young people that you will support. You will be an effective and clear communicator, both written and verbally with a core focus of safeguarding children as your motivator.
You will need to be an empowering, approachable, and resilient individual with a strong work ethic and “can-do attitude”. Being an advocate for accountability of your work and a focussed proactive mindset are essential requirements for this position.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are 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 of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk