Job Description

Salary

35,412 - 38,220

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Region

Rotherham

Job category/type

Social Care

Date posted

10/12/2025

Job reference

REQ21862

attachment
Benefits Package.doc

Directorate: Children and Young People's Services

Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week. Are you an experienced, solution oriented, systemic working, child focused practitioner, keen to work alongside partners and particularly our children and young people to deliver short breaks in Rotherham? This post could be for you! ... Liberty House provides planned overnight short break care seven days per week for up to seven children and young people aged between 5-18 years who have physical or sensory disabilities, complex health needs and challenging behaviour because of their disability.

Rotherham Council has made a strategic decision to make a significant investment in children's residential services. This will ensure more of our looked after children are placed in Rotherham, close to their local communities, family and schools.

We are seeking a Senior Practitioner who has previous experience of working in SEND provisions, mental health residential settings, crisis accommodation and with children and young people with sensory, ASD and physical disabilities. You will be joining a well-established team to contribute to the continued development and growth of RMBC's residential short breaks service.

The senior practitioner role will involve leading a team of Residential Care Practitioners to provide overnight short breaks for up to 6 children and young people (including an emergency provision), you will provide first line direct management for the support workers and assist the management team in the day to day running of the service.

For an informal discussion, please contact Donna Dawson or Beth Roper at Donna.Dawson@rotherham.go.uk or Bethany.Roper@rotherham.gov.uk. This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website. Until 31st March 2026 existing employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time). The Council is in consultation with trade unions regarding continuation of any agreement from 1st April 2026. Confirmation of this appointment is also subject to a medical assessment.