Senior Practitioner

JR United Kingdom; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Practitioner in the Encompass Therapeutic Hub, where you will play a crucial role in supporting foster families and children with higher needs. This permanent position offers the chance to make a significant impact through assessments, supervision, and collaboration with various children's services. Enjoy a hybrid working model, generous benefits including a Golden Hello, and a supportive environment with manageable caseloads and excellent training opportunities. If you're passionate about social care and want to contribute to a high-quality service, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Golden Hello

Annual Retention Allowance

Local Government Pension Scheme

Free Car Parking

Mileage Claims

Relocation Allowance

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Retail Discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in social work with a focus on fostering and therapeutic practices.
• Strong assessment and supervision skills with the ability to support foster carers.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and support foster carers in a therapeutic environment.
• Attend meetings and ensure compliance checks for families are up to date.

Skills

Assessment Skills

Supervision Skills

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Social Work Qualification

Job description

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Senior Practitioner – Encompass Therapeutic Hub

Senior Practitioner – Encompass Therapeutic Hub

Salary: up to £53,373 per annum (dependent on experience)

In addition, you will receive up to £2000 annual retention payment, £2000 Golden Hello

Location: Hybrid Working/Bromley Civic Centre (Churchill Court)

Hours: 36 hours

Contract: Permanent

We currently have a permanent opportunity available in the Encompass Fostering Therapeutic Service for a full time Senior Practitioner to undertake Assessments, Support and Supervision of Foster Carers in the Encompass Hubs.

The Encompass Fostering Therapeutic Service is made up of highly experienced foster carers and supervising social workers. This newly launched project seeks to provide extensive support to therapeutically trained carers to allow them to care for children with higher needs in a family based, nurturing, setting.

The role will include:

• Undertaking Encompass Family Assessments
• Undertaking home visits to Encompass families and carrying out their supervision and supporting them with the children and young people they care for.
• Attending PEP’s and CLA reviews and any other meetings relevant to the child and young person.
• Keeping the Encompass family’s compliance checks up to date.
• Attending relevant panels and meetings for matching purposes and reviews.
• Working on projects within the Hub to achieve outstanding status.
• Working together with all of children’s services for the best interest of the children and young people we care for.

Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:

• Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance
• The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Excellent training and career development pathway
• Free Car Parking at Bromley Civic Centre
• The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance
• Relocation Allowance (up to £8,000) for successful candidates relocating from overseas or the outer southeast area
• A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.
• Benefit scheme also includes a range of discounts at local retailers

Our values and behaviours have a key part to play in how staff carry out the work of the Council and how we engage and build working relationships with key partner agencies. This framework outlines the desired behaviours that align with our established values, to help create a workforce that are able to deliver services that are seen as ‘excellent’ in the eyes of local people.

You will be joining an ambitious service with strong leadership and clear lines of support. As part of the Bromley Promise there will be a dedicated two-week induction programme upon joining us.

We are confident that with your support, we will continue to provide high quality social care services to our children in Bromley as set out in our improvement and transformation plan. In return we ask that you bring your passion, dedication and skills to us.

The Bromley Promise:

· Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker

· Dedicated time for reflective supervision

· Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days

· Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising four Social Workers

· Two-week protected induction programme

· Excellent Learning and development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker

· Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team