Pause Practice Lead
Haringey
£38.57/hr
Full time: 36/hrs a week
Start date: ASAP
Hatched Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for a Pause Practice Lead in the Haringey area. 3 - 6 months contract.
Role Purpose
To provide leadership to the Pause Haringey to ensure the implementation and delivery of an integrated package of health, therapeutic and social support. The Pause Practice Lead will aim to address the complex needs of women and reduce the numbers of children being removed into care.
The work of Pause breaks the cycle of vulnerable women having 3 to 5 children removed from their care and placed for adoption. The overall plan is that vulnerable women will be offered intensive support to improve their live style, thus can become safe parents. This will result in their child remaining in their care.
Main Responsibilities
1. Effectively lead and coach the Pause Practice to achieve positive outcomes for women - setting vision, targets and priorities.
2. 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 and ensuring the most effective form of long acting reversible contraception is in place.
3. Ensure effective pathways are established and maintained with key agencies, e.g. sexual health, housing and mental health. Women will be supported to have future planned pregnancies. This will result in most women being able to keep their babies and will lead to a reduction in care proceedings.
4. Ensure an evidence base is applied to practice through assessment of a woman's needs, case formulation, intervention delivery and review.
5. 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.
Knowledge, qualifications and experience:
o Experience of leading a practice team on a day-to-day basis;
o Experience of providing case management and supervision to a team working with clients with complex needs;
o 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;
o Knowledge and understanding of a range of evidence-based approaches including systemic practice, social learning theory, attachment and loss, relationship and strength-based intervention
o Knowledge and understanding of the complex and intersecting needs of this client group;
o Knowledge of adult safeguarding, childcare legislation, local Child Protection Procedures, and an understanding of child development, parenting capacity and risk and protective factors.