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Grade: PO7
Salary: £56,172 – £59,328 per annum (Pro rata)
Fixed-Term Contract until 31st March 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 7th April 2024
Interview Date: Week commencing 15th April 2024
About Haringey and Pause
Haringey Council is one of 32 in London. Haringey is an extremely diverse borough, and the Council has set clear ambitious objectives through its borough plan to make Haringey a better place to live, encourage investment and create opportunities that all can share. Haringey’s vision for the future is one of sustainable growth, in housing and jobs and on helping our residents and businesses take advantage of that growth. We have got huge ambitions for Haringey. As the shape of local government continues to change, we are determined to rise to the challenge and find new ways to ensure that our residents enjoy the best opportunities in life. Working at Haringey gives you the opportunity to play a part in meeting those ambitions on behalf of everyone who calls the borough their home.
Are you an ambitious, creative and influential leader who is passionate about reducing the number of children being removed into care by supporting women to bring about change in their lives?
About Pause:
Pause works with women who have experienced – or are at risk of experiencing – repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care.
Through an intense programme of support, it aims to break this cycle and give women the opportunity to reflect, tackle destructive patterns of behaviour and to develop new skills and responses that can help them create a more positive future. In doing so, we aim to prevent the damaging consequences of thousands more children being taken into care.
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About the Role
As a Pause Practice Lead, you will provide leadership to Pause Haringey and Barnet to ensure the implementation and delivery of an integrated package of health, therapeutic and social support. Pause is specifically designed to address the complex needs of women, to enable change in their lives and ultimately reduce the numbers of children being removed into care.
Key responsibilities:
- Effectively lead and coach the Pause Practice to achieve positive outcomes for women: setting vision, targets and priorities.
- Work with the Pause National Practice Lead, to ensure fidelity and integrity to the model through delivery of the Pause Framework elements (for example, assertive outreach with women delivered in a bespoke trauma informed approach; women are supported to use a form of effective contraception that is acceptable to them and supports them to achieve the sustained pause in pregnancy needed for the programme);
- Ensure effective pathways are established and maintained with key agencies, for example, sexual health, housing and mental health.
- Ensure an evidence base is applied to practice through assessment of a woman’s needs, case formulation, intervention delivery and review.
- Ensure outcomes are achieved and monitored through the Pause Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework and that real-time data is used to improve practice and reported to relevant funders.
- Report to the Local Pause Board and any other relevant funders.
- Manage expenditure of the Pause Practice and ensure any financial spend on women is aligned with their goals, as set out in the care plan.
- Ensure the effective management of all statutory requirements related to Pause Haringey and Barnet at all times, including safeguarding of vulnerable children and adults, and health and safety of staff.
- Represent Pause to external stakeholders.
- Embed continuous learning ethos within the Pause Practice.
About You
Qualifications:
- Relevant professional qualification and/or experience e.g. nursing, social work, mental health, education, criminal justice, youth work, therapeutic practice, counselling, criminal justice or equivalent.
- Professional registration (if appropriate);
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring check (DBS) enhanced level.
Experience and knowledge:
- Experience of leading a practice team on a day-to-day basis.
- Experience of providing case management and supervision to a team working with clients with complex needs;
- Experience of working with families/individuals who present with a range of complex needs (mental health challenges, drug and alcohol misuse, domestic violence) and demonstrate ability to create rapport and build effective relationships.
- Knowledge and understanding of a range of evidence-based approaches including systemic practice, social learning theory, attachment and loss, relationship and strength-based interventions.
- Knowledge and understanding of the complex and intersecting needs of this client group.
- Knowledge of adult safeguarding, childcare legislation, local Child Protection Procedures, and an understanding of child development, parenting capacity and risk and protective factors.
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 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.
