Senior Practitioner, Assessment Team - Ayot St Peter - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Ayot St Peter; On-site; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner for the Assessment Team to deliver statutory support and manage a caseload in Hertfordshire. This role requires a Social Work degree and current England registration. The successful candidate will provide practice development opportunities, make complex decisions, and work collaboratively with partners. A salary up to £54,460 per annum is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience within Children’s Services.
• Ability to provide support planning and safeguarding.
• Experience managing a caseload.

Responsibilities

• Provide practice development opportunities for the team.
• Make professional, risk-informed decisions.
• Manage an allocated caseload to deliver specialised support.

Skills

Decision-making

Risk assessment

Team management

Education

Degree in Social Work or equivalent

Current 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 Team to work full time based in Hertfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £54,460 per annum.

• Provide practice development opportunities for own team and partner organisation.
• Responsible for making professional risk‑informed complex decisions.
• Provide statutory support to residents, including the provision of information, advice, assessment, support planning and safeguarding in line within statutory guidance and council policy and procedures.
• Work in partnership with voluntary sector organisations, partners and others to provide integrated and coordinated support to residents and families in the community.
• Manage an allocated caseload to deliver specialised support and services to residents and the community within defined standards.
• Make recommendations on procedural, process and service improvements to enhance overall team and service performance.
• Recognise and monitor risk, escalating issues to more senior colleagues when necessary to ensure that situations are addressed at the earliest possible time.
• Operate effectively within and contribute to the development of organisations and services, including multi‑agency and inter‑professional settings.
• Provides line management to a small team. This will include translating wider objectives into detailed activities for their team, and monitoring performance against this.
• Control team activities to meet (daily/weekly/monthly) caseloads performance targets and schedules.

Requirements of This Senior Practitioner Job.

• Degree or equivalent in Social Work.
• Current Social Work England Registration.
• Experience within Children’s Services.

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. 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.