Company Description

At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals, from cradle to career. Our work spans education, social justice and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action, and getting people into work.

Young People and Families

Our Young People and Families Hub (YP&F) delivers a wide range of integrated support services that are designed to help resolve complex difficulties experienced by young people and their families/carers. Our Hub works with those in trouble, providing early intervention to those who are in crisis, leaving care, missing from home, or with substance misuse or mental health problems - services support people no matter what their situation, and have demonstrated a high success rate.

Our Merton Risk and Resilience Service is an integrated service, focused on mitigating risk, and promoting resilience, in children and young people (C&YP). Our service aims to reduce the harm to children and young people (aged 18 and under), within the Child Exploitation (CE) and Missing service area, and C&YP (aged 24 and under), within the substance misuse service area.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Risk & Resilience Practitioner to join our team. You will be an essential component to our mission and ambition and will:

• Recruit, manage, motivate, coach, and develop a team including carrying out annual appraisals and regular supervision meetings to manage their health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Be the designated safeguarding lead in the service and ensure that all safeguarding processes are followed and people are aware and trained in good safeguarding practice to protect service users and members of staff.
• To manage operational risk, health and safety, governance, and safeguarding issues in line with Catch22 and Commissioner policies.
• Carry out regular case file audits as per the Audit Policy and Procedure.
• Be responsible for the allocation of referrals and ensure caseload management structures are in place.
• Provide consultation, information, training and presentations to other professionals, family, and young people.
• Work alongside and ensure effective relationships with Children and Families services (CFS) and other local agencies / partner organisations and treatment providers to ensure effective referrals, care, and risk management as well as ease of transition and referral for young people.
• To act as an ambassador for Catch22, upholding and promoting our corporate values, services and the positive work we do in society at national and local levels. . 
• Fulfil, at a basic level the responsibilities of the Service Manager in times of their absence. 
• Be an active member of the senior management team attending, contributing to meetings, and training events as necessary.
• To ensure all service user information, interventions and other data as required by the contract are recorded on the relevant data management system in line with Catch22’s policy. 

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Qualifications

Relevant qualification in health & wellbeing, youth provision, counselling or similar.

Training/group work – information education delivery.

NVQ3 Health & Social Care.

Additional Information

Salary - £33,547

Working Hours - Full Time - 37 hours per week, permanent

This post will involve travel around the London Borough of Merton on a daily basis.

This post will involve occasional travel around the UK.

This post will require enhanced DBS.

*This role requires access to a car, and a full driving licence.
*Catch22 supports flexible working, and we are ambassadors of a positive work-life balance - any hours worked outside of regular contracted hours will be accrued as Toil, and wherever possible, these are taken at the member of staff's convenience

Benefits

• Discounted shopping opportunities, with over 1,400 retailers – through our Rewards Hub.
• Access to a 24/7 GP helpline – including online video consultations, and electronic private prescriptions.
• Employee Assistance Programme – a free, confidential service that offers expert advice, information, and counselling, for all staff and their dependents (24/7, 365 days a year).
• Access to a network of trained Mental Health First Aiders, across the organisation.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 28 days annual leave (+ 8 public holidays) – increasing to 33 days after five years.
• Matching employer pension contributions of 4%.

If you would like to meet the team and/or visit the service prior to applying, please email Kelly Anderson, Service Manager: kelly.anderson@catch-22.org.uk.

Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.

Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

If you are applying for this role and are care experienced, Catch22 offers a mentor to assist with the application process.  Please contact recruitment@catch-22.org.uk if you would like to find out more about this support.  This information will not be passed to the team recruiting for this position. For more information about the Propel Programme and a guide for candidates who wish to join the programme, please see here.