Job Introduction
We’re recruiting a full-time Practitioner to join our established Children and Families Practice Team, covering Milton Keynes South. You’ll play a pivotal role in supporting children and their families who have been identified as requiring early help support.
You’ll carry out assessments and build relationships with children to understand their needs and those of their families, and learn what could be done to improve things for them. You’ll also work with parents/carers to help them with the parenting challenges they are facing. Support takes places in the family’s home, school and other community settings.
We work with colleagues and external organisations to develop a ‘Team Around the Family’, delivering a plan of support to empower the family in making positive changes. This is in accordance with the statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2018.
Milton Keynes City Council is a modern and friendly place to work. We offer an excellent benefits package including an enhanced pension, generous holiday allowance starting at 28 days as well as a great range of training and development opportunities to help you in your career.
Interviews will be held on the 18 October
Main Responsibility
- Be the assigned practitioner to an allocated number of families, where their needs sit below the threshold of statutory children’s services.
- Gain an understanding of what children and young people’s life is like to identify the support needed to improve their situation by assessing them with the support of other agencies involved.
- Following an assessment, work with other agencies to identify the support needed to address any areas of concern. This may involve making referrals to other agencies to access the necessary support.
- Maintain accurate, clear and concise case recordings for all children and young people accessing the service. These will clearly detail the children and young people and their families’ circumstances to give a clear account of their life story.
- Direct, indirect and clinical supervision is available to assist you to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people and to support you as a person and for career progression.
The Ideal Candidate
- We welcome someone who has experience of working directly with children, young people and their families including assessment of needs and the planning and delivery of interventions to achieve successful outcomes. As many of the families experience highly complex issues you will need to be resilient, resourceful and adaptable.
- Ability to travel including access to your own vehicle for which a mileage allowance will be paid. On occasions, there will be a requirement to work outside normal working hours.
Package Description
We are really proud of the benefits we are able to offer our staff here at Milton Keynes City Council, including:-
- Local Government Pension Scheme, excellent pension scheme widely regarded as one of the best available.
- 28 days annual leave per year in addition to statutory and public holidays, rising to 32 days after 5 years.
- Holiday Purchase Scheme.
- Our Professional Development Centre provides access to courses such as in-house management development programmes endorsed by the Institute of Leadership, coaching and mentoring and access to our Smarter Learning portal
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Health Cashplan.
- MK Advantage benefits package – a range of savings on a wide range of retail, leisure and entertainment products and services such as Pizza Express, M&S, B&Q, John Lewis and Arriva Travel.
- Blue Light Card - Employees working within Social Care can qualify for a range of discounts from national retailers to local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones and much more!
- SmartGo – Aimed at encouraging low-carbon transport and healthy lifestyle with discounted travel e.g. Halfords, Arriva, Europcar, National Railcards and Stagecoach.
- Homebuy Scheme (for eligible roles).
- Smarter working which provides the opportunity to work from various locations including from home for a proportion of your role (subject to business needs).
- A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity entitlements.
- Childcare Subsidy.
About The Organisation
Milton Keynes is a diverse, welcoming, and expanding place, built on smart ideas with even bigger plans for the future. We have world class attractions, beautiful open spaces, and a great standard of living.
Milton Keynes City Council is one of the largest employers in the region, making a difference every day for local people. We’re responsible for all local government services in MK including education, housing, highways, and social services - around 240 services in all.
Our values are to be dedicated, respectful, and collaborative. If this sounds like you, join us for a stimulating and fulfilling career measured on results, and a rewarding work-life balance.
