Senior Practitioner - Assessment & Intervention - Essex - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Essex; On-site; GBP 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks a Senior Practitioner for the Assessment & Intervention Team in Essex. The ideal candidate will provide professional leadership, support team performance, and ensure adherence to legal requirements. A valid social work qualification and registration with Social Work England are essential. This full-time position offers a salary up to £50,290 per annum, with opportunities for professional growth in a diverse environment.

Qualifications

• A social work qualification or equivalent is required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is a must.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues.
• Support professional decision-making in team assessment procedures.
• Manage team performance and development using a coaching approach.
• Ensure adherence to data quality legislation.

Skills

Leadership

Complex problem-solving

Critical reasoning

Reflective practice

Professional decision-making

Education

Social work qualification or equivalent

Social Work England registration

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Assessment & Intervention Team to work full-time based in Essex.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £50,290 per annum.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
• Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory, and legislation to enhance practice, procedures, and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognized sites of excellence.
• Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
• Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
• Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.
• Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk-taking situations.
• Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
• Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
• Manage a defined team or area providing organization, direction, and development.
• Provide professional support, advice, and/or supervision.
• Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximized.
• Manage complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorize when appropriate.
• Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary, and third-sector organizations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
• Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organizational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
• Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirements of data quality legislation.
• When required, monitor, analyze, and manage delegated budgets, funding, and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget.

Requirements:

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

Diversity and Inclusion:

Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. We are committed to promoting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and have undertaken annual online training on EDI and other compliance training courses.

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.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.