Senior Practitioner

My Social Work News; Harlow, Thurrock, Grays, Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks a Senior Practitioner for the Family Support & Protection Team in Harlow to manage complex cases and ensure high standards of social work practice. The position involves working closely with children and families, maintaining accurate records, and contributing to ongoing service development. Applicants must possess a recognized social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.

Qualifications

• Social Work Qualification or equivalent is mandatory.
• Must be registered with Social Work England.
• Understanding of relevant legislation required.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload ensuring high quality social work input.
• Collaborate with local authorities and contribute to court statements.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to team members.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Family Support & Protection Team to work full time based in Harlow.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £49,183 per annum.

• To responsible for a managed caseload of the more complex cases in the service and ensure the delivery of a high quality social work input, consistent with accepted notions of best practice and national and local guidance, in the context of partnership working.
• To model high quality professional behaviour and to develop and promote notions of authoritative practice within the service.
• To progress children’s plan in accordance with current local protocols, this may include writing statements within timescales, giving evidence on behalf of the Local Authority in Family Proceedings Court and any other court within the Family Division as required.
• To maintain accurate and up to date electronic case records in line with Departmental policies and procedures and contribute to the continued development of the database.
• To offer case advice, mentoring, coaching and guidance to others in the service as required including co-working, joint visiting, assistance with court statements and other reports and assessments.
• To support the development of a service consistent with models of partnership working with other agencies and children and their families and to work with them in enabling children to stay safely at home wherever possible.
• To promote welfare of children in care with particular regard for their age, sex, health, race, religion, culture and life experience.
• To take responsibility for your personal professional development by maintaining and developing relevant skills and knowledge of current legislation, policy and social work practice through self direct learning and via formal PQ route.
• To work with the Head of Service, Service Manager and Team Managers in managing the development of the service ensuring it continues to improve and responds to changing need.
• To work with other managers to ensure practice in the service is of the highest standards and that performance information is readily available, analysed and used to inform current and future working practices.
• To undertake any other duties consistent with the basic duties and/or objectives of the post.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job 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. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

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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