Leaving Care Worker

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The Derbyshire Leaving Care Service are looking for a Part Time Leaving Care Worker to join our very passionate, nurturing, inclusive and committed Leaving Care Service.  The post sits with the North East & Bolsover and Amber Valley Leaving Care Team.

You will be assisting in the delivery of an efficient and effective care leaver service embedding Derbyshire’s operating model and a never give up approach into all leaving care practice to improve outcomes for Derbyshire children and young people.

You will be embedding and strengthening our current offer to care leavers and will be working intensively with our children in care as they start their transition towards adulthood and interdependence.

While effectively managing a caseload of 16 - 25 year olds, to facilitate positive transitions into adulthood and provide support, guidance and information in a wide range of areas including health, disability, education, training, careers, employment, accommodation, managing finance, etc, ensuring key statutory outcomes are achieved.

What will I be doing:

• Maintain our corporate responsibility, our positive outcomes and our culture of never giving up on our care experienced young people
• Work with a Social Pedagogy, Systemic and trauma informed approach; supporting our young people holistically alongside our partners and locality social work teams with an aspirational approach for young people’s futures
• Maintain a child centred approach while promoting care experienced young people’s transitions into interdependence
• Represent the service and our care experienced young people locally, regionally and nationally
• You will be working within the statutory guidelines and expectations for care experienced young people and children in care
• You will have a focus on education, employment and training designed to help young people of all abilities choose the appropriate route to make the most of their opportunities when they leave care

What skills and experience do you need to have:

• Experience of working with children in care and care experienced young people
• A real passion and commitment to do more and better for our young people
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships with young people, workers, management and partners
• A strong advocate for care experienced young people and children in care
• Ability to reflect on own practice and development enabling flexible and thoughtfulpractice and positive change 

What we offer you: 

• Manageable case loads
• Two thriving office and young person hubs
• Visible, supportive and determined manager’s
• Diverse range of cases providing an exciting, challenging and rewarding career
• Excellent supervision and a supportive peer network
• Access to an excellent range of training and development opportunities,
• Fantastic opportunities to undertake further formal qualifications and career progression through our career pathways

If you would like to talk to someone informally about this post, please contact abigail.lee2@derbyshire.gov.uk  and claire.connolly-weston@derbyshire.gov.uk

What benefits do we offer you?

• Local Government Pension Scheme
• generous annual leave, sick pay and flexi-time scheme
• travel expenses
• discount on leisure centre memberships
• free car parking at most sites
• an in-house counselling service
• occupational health service
• access to sessions with a trained physiotherapist

• cycle to work scheme
• DBS check undertaken and paid for by us
• Guaranteed incremental annual pay increases

 Provisional Interview Date: Mid January 2025

Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Click here to see our policy on criminal background checks.

The job may require unsocial hours working including weekends and Bank Holidays. Payment arrangements will be detailed in any contract offer made.

Apply now and take the first step towards a fulfilling career with us! By joining Derbyshire County Council you will have access to a range of amazing rewards and employee benefits, including our generous annual leave scheme, excellent local government pension and fantastic employee discounts. To discover more detail about the rewards and benefits available to you, click here

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