We are looking for someone who wants the very best for children to take a lead in ensuring that children’s rights are upheld for all of the children and young people who live with us.
The Role
Place of work: Wirral, Merseyside
Salary band: £38,000-£40,000
Job terms: Part-time, permanent
Providing excellent care for children and safeguarding them can involve working with, and at times, challenging, the structures, systems and policies that are having an impact on young people. Juno's Children’s Rights Social Worker will have the mandate to uphold Children’s Rights both within our homes and outside of them.
Within the home, you will work with our Registered Manager and Social Care Practitioners to:
Help to explore trauma bonds and address emotional dependence in harmful relationships
Promote and support time with friends and important people in children’s lives
Lead Social Prescribing work that supports emotional health and wellbeing
Teach self-advocacy and help children to access self-advocacy software
Outside of the homes, you will work systemically and contextually to uphold Children’s rights, and your tasks will include:
Liaising with Local Authority social workers to agree on parameters for this work
Supporting children may who wish to change their time arrangements
Disrupting exploitation and challenging other agencies on failed responses
Providing Appropriate Adult support for children in custody and monitoring activity in relation to PACE guidance
Supporting and nurturing links with post-18 services
You will eventually work across three children’s homes, each with a maximum of 4 children in residence, so your caseload will never be higher than 12.
Your 18 hours of work can be divided over 3 days, with at least 50% of the hours worked after school (15:30 onwards). You will be paid for mealtimes spent with children.
You will receive training, coaching and consultation from experts in their field and will be supervised by our Director of Care, who is a Registered Social Worker with 44 years of experience.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for someone who wants the very best for children to take a lead in ensuring that children’s rights are upheld for all of the children and young people who live with us.
If you’re right for this role, this will sound like you…
You are a qualified, experienced, registered Social Worker with a strong track record of direct work with children and families, experience of care proceedings, complex assessments and working with Children Looked After.
You believe that the Children’s Rights enshrined in the United Nations Convention should be upheld for all children and you have a sound knowledge of all UK legislation relevant to children.
You have an unrelenting commitment to encouraging each child or young person that you work with to take a lead in their own life
You are reflective, always learning and would embrace a culture of innovation
You are honest, genuine, open, self-aware and woke!
Application deadline - 1st of May
Post to commence in July
To apply:
Send your CV and answers to the following questions to joinus@wearejuno.org
Tell us about your personal values. What is most important to you in terms of how you live your life and how you treat others?
From the perspective of a teenager in the current care system, what would they think needs to be changed about children’s homes?
Recruitment process:
You will be invited to a short video call to meet the hiring manager
You will be invited to a full-day assessment event in Liverpool on the 13th of May
If successful, you will be invited to a final stage interview w/c the 15th of May
Download the full job pack for further information:
Interested but not quite ready to apply?
Send us an email at Hello@wearejuno.org and we will keep your details on file for future roles, or help you otherwise.