Senior Practitioner

My Social Work News; Luton; On-site; GBP 42,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner for the Children with Disabilities Team in Luton. This full-time role involves managing complex cases, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring compliance with legislative requirements. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with various professionals to promote the wellbeing of children and families, creating effective plans and assessments. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to making a positive impact in the community and supporting the professional development of its staff.

Qualifications

• Requires a Social Work Qualification and understanding of relevant legislation.
• Must be registered or eligible for registration with Social Care England.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload for children at risk and ensure legislative compliance.
• Provide mentorship to junior social workers and support team managers.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of Relevant Legislation

Consultative Skills

Mentoring Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

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 Children with Disabilities Team to work full time based in Luton.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £41,496 per annum.

Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for a complex caseload including those children at risk and subject to care proceedings and child protection plans to make a positive difference for children, young people and families in the town, by driving up the quality of practice and partnerships across the town and its services, whilst ensuring legislative requirements are met.
• Act in a consultative and mentoring role to less experienced social workers to ensure reflective practice in all single or multi-agency assessments, including the development of outcome focused plans. This will include supporting less experienced staff with court proceedings and chairing core group and multi-agency meetings.
• Support Team Managers to promote excellence within the team, i.e. providing peer supervision, mentoring and deputising in the absence of managers.
• To gather information, to complete clear, accurate and holistic professional assessments of need and risk in respect of children and families. Critically analyse all relevant information and take the lead role to co-ordinate the multi-agency approach to promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of child/young people.
• Creating effective SMART plans referring to the Practice Framework, implement, monitor and review using the appropriate available resources ensuring needs are met through negotiation and consultation with professional colleagues and service users.
• Liaise and work with other professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people. Build positive relationships with children and their families through promoting participation and undertaking direct work to ensure that their voices, wishes and feelings are heard.
• Provide witness statements for court when required, accountable to the requirements of both internal/external agencies in line with Luton Borough Council Policies and Procedures.
• To take personal responsibility for own professional development and reflective practice and keep up to date with changes to legislation, court rules, policies, procedures and best practice development i.e. for your Continued Professional Development (CPD) and progression through regular check-ins and supervisions. Attending training through the Social Work Academy and Research in Practice.

Requirements of this role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).

Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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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