Job Introduction
It is an exciting time to join us in Bradford Children’s Services. We have a strong Senior Leadership Team who are focussed and have a clear vision to embed quality of practice across the Bradford District. Children are at the heart of everything we do. We are and continue to embed Trauma informed, relationship-based practice with focus on the Strengths based model, working with key partners across the district within our work with families and we have a clear model of care for the children and young people we look after.
We are looking to recruit friendly, dynamic and enthusiastic individuals to join our learning and development team and we want to hear from you if you.
- Have excellent innovation skills to join us on our journey to excellence.
- Have the ability to work within and contribute to a team.
- Have a flexible approach when the need arises.
The role you would be coming to do.
Within this role, you will be supporting practice by developing and delivering high quality training that will drive improvements in service delivery to meet the needs of our children and families in with the vision of the Trust.
As a Learning and Development practitioner you will have a pivotal role in supporting practice to deliver high quality training that will drive improvements in service delivery to meet the needs of children and their families. You will also create and influence a culture of continuous learning by designing and delivering training that is based on the needs of the service, the individual and the organisation.
Monitor and review the feedback and effectiveness of the training with the manager to ensure that the training is making a difference to the lives of the children and families of Bradford.
The person we are looking for.
We are looking for someone to develop and deliver high quality engaging and informative training sessions and workshops to residential practitioners, promoting restorative and relational working throughout the service.
In this role, you will need to be responsive to practice improvement, responding to learning from Ofsted inspections, audits and feedback as well as ensuring that training is up to date with developing research and changes in legislation.
Within the role, you will establish, develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external colleagues supporting them to adopt and embed a restorative, relationship-based practice approach in all or our interactions with children, families, colleagues and partners.
You need to ensure that the child/young person’s voice is heard and is listened to alongside all key professionals working with children and young people.
You need to be highly organised. You need to be highly professional, offering high support and high challenge to the practitioners and their teams across Bradford Children’s and Families Trust when sharing areas of strengths and areas of learning. You need to be able to evidence a sound knowledge of local and national policies and procedures and keep up to date with research and good practice.
A recognised professional Social Work Qualification e.g. Degree in Social Work, Dip SW, CQSW or equivalent as recognised by Social Work England.
A recognised post qualifying award in Social Work or demonstrable evidence of continuous professional development at a similar level.
Benefits:
- Generous Employer Contributions in a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Competitive salary and pay progression structure.
- Real living wage as the minimum rate of pay
- Supportive carer and parental policies
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Access to Occupational Health and confidential counselling services
- Supportive staff networks
- Access to Blue Light Card Discounts
- Professional development/support
- Career Progression
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Social Worker Registration Fees paid
- Flexible Working/Hybrid options subject to service need
Next Steps
If you would like to contact us with any questions about the role or working for Children & Families Trust, please do not hesitate to contact:
Anna Culver on 07582100342 or by e-mailing anna.culver@bradfordcft.org.uk
The closing date for applying for this post is: 25/2/2025
The panel are expecting to short list on 26/2/2025 with interviews to be held on 13/3/2025
An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertake for this post.
