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SalaryBCFT Family Outreach Practitioner (FOP0602)
Children’s Services
Safeguarding & Review, Commissioning & Provider Services
Family Outreach Practitioner
5 x 37 hours per week
Permanent
Band 7 – 8 25,979 to 31,364
Based at Shipley Town Hall, hybrid working.
It is an exciting time to join us at Bradford Children and Families Trust. Bradford is a City which offers a richness of culture and diversity; it is the fourth largest Metropolitan District in the country and home to a population of 534,300 residents. Bradford has the largest percentage of population under the age of 16 outside London; over 3% of the population is under the age of 20. Bradford is one of the most diverse areas in England with over 37% of the population from BAME groups.
Bradford Strengthening Families is a new service, supporting vulnerable children, young people and families in crisis and on the edge of care. Your insight and experience will play an essential role in our ability to deliver the highest professional standards – always putting the needs of our children, young people and families at the heart of what we do. You will deliver intensive support, working with families to ensure measurable and improved outcomes for children and young people, so that families remain together where it is safe to do so. This includes attending multi-agency meetings including child protection conferences and multi-agency risk panels; contributing through case recording to the monitoring of team performance and audit activity; and to the development of the Bradford Strengthening Families Service as a whole.
We are looking to recruit a friendly, dynamic, and enthusiastic individuals to join our team and we want to hear from you if you:
· Have lots of enthusiasm for improving outcomes for children and their families.
· Have excellent communication skills.
· Have the ability to work as part of and contribute to a team whilst working with own initiative.
· Have a ‘can do’ attitude and a flexible approach when the need arises.
Please refer to the Job Profile for full details of the requirements of the posts including key competencies.
To learn more about us and the roles, please contact: Donna.Call@bradfordcft.org.uk
For further details, please see attached Job Profile: Family Outreach Practitioner JD.pdf
Closing date : 18th February 2024
Interviews to be held on : 7th March 2024
The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers, Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 requires that the Trust ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.
