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Advanced Practitioner - Looked After Children's Team

Sanctuary Personnel

Enfield

On-site

GBP 56,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking an Advanced Practitioner for the Looked After Children Team. This full-time role involves providing essential casework services to vulnerable children, mentoring staff, and developing projects to enhance service delivery. The position offers a competitive salary and the chance to make a significant impact in the lives of children and young people. Join a dedicated team that values diversity and inclusion, and contribute to meaningful change in the community. If you're passionate about social work and ready to take on a challenging yet rewarding role, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

  • Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent required.
  • Strong understanding of relevant legislation is essential.

Responsibilities

  • Provide casework service to vulnerable looked after children.
  • Develop and deliver projects to improve outcomes for children.
  • Mentor and support less experienced social care workforce.

Skills

Social Work
Understanding of relevant legislation
Mentoring

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Job description

Advanced Practitioner - Looked After Children's Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Practitioner within the Looked After Children Team to work Full Time based in Enfield.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Practitioner job is up to £55,692 per annum.

  1. Provide a casework service to the most vulnerable looked after children which will include a significant level of complex court work.
  2. Develop and deliver projects which further the knowledge of the service and/or improve outcomes for individual children and young people.
  3. Work with the team managers on performance improvement strategies, improving compliance with national legislative requirements and local policies.
  4. Mentor and support less experienced members of the social care workforce to build the skills and knowledge of the whole service.
  5. Provide specialist permanency planning input into complex cases held by other social workers.
  6. Assist in managing the daily duty team on behalf of the service.
  7. Represent the service in external multi-agency partnerships.
  8. Any other duties reasonably requested by management.
  9. Carry out all accountabilities in compliance with the Council's Policies and Procedures.

Requirements of this Advanced Practitioner role:

  1. A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
  2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
  3. Registered or eligible for registration.
  4. Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:

This Advanced Practitioner role is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

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