Children's Advanced Practitioner

Remedy Recruitment Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds City Council is seeking a Children's Advanced Practitioner to join the Child and Family Assessments team. You will manage a caseload including Child in Need, Child Protection, and Child Care Proceedings until permanence, working alongside other social workers.

The post emphasises restorative practice and family-led decisions to manage risk and meet support needs. You will require excellent relational and analytical skills, with high-quality written work, and be prepared to work in a busy

Qualifications

• Experience as a social worker with Child and Family Assessments, Child in Need, and Child Protection.
• Ability to manage complex caseloads up to Child Care Proceedings until permanence.
• Excellent relational skills and high-quality written work.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload including Child and Family Assessments, Child in Need, and Child Protection.
• Lead worker responsibilities alongside other social workers; contribute to practice standards and performance.
• Engage children through direct work and child-centred practice; promote family-led decisions to manage risk.

Job description

Our client Leeds City Council is looking for a Children's Advanced Practitioner to join their Child and Family Assessments team.

We are looking for an experienced social worker who is able to manage a caseload comprising of Child and Family Assessments, Child in Need, Child Protection, Child Care Proceedings until permanence. This caseload will have a level of complexity and lead worker responsibilities working alongside other social workers, it will not have supervisory / line manager responsibilities. Social workers should be able to practice restorative with child and families and promote family led decisions to manage risk and meet support needs.

Applicants must demonstrate excellent relational work with children and families and be able to engage children through direct work and child centred practice.

Organisation skills and ability to meet competing demands are required to ensure practice standards, good quality and practice and performance.

The post requires workers to have good analytical assessment skills and with high quality written work.

Social workers will need to work as part of a busy but supportive team and share their knowledge and skills to promote the learning culture.

Applicants must be able to drive and have use of a car.

37 hours per week 8.30AM - 5PM.

Must be office based for duty but hybrid working is negotiable dependant on the needs of the team (due to the relational approach of the organisation, it is envisaged this will be office based on duty weeks and one WFH home day/compressed hours on non-duty).