Senior Practitioner - Assessment Team - Hertford - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Hertford; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner to join their Assessment Team in Hertfordshire. The role involves managing complex cases and conducting assessments with a focus on children and families, requiring a Social Work Qualification and prior team management experience. Offering a salary of up to £48,587 per annum, this full-time position provides the opportunity to work in a supportive and diverse environment.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team in social work settings.
• Registered with Social Work England.
• Ability to conduct strength-based assessments.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex cases within the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
• Conduct assessments involving families and children.
• Build relationships with children and partner agencies.

Skills

Team management

Communication

Child-centered approach

Understanding of legislation

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Social Worker - Adults Multi-Disciplinary Team

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 Apsley, Hertfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £48,587 per annum.

• Our Assessment Teams undertake single child and family assessments for those circumstances where our Multi agency Safeguarding Hub has identified the need for a social work assessment.
• With a string partnership approach, a dedicated Out of Hours service, strength-based assessments, robust pathways for Early Help and strong performance, the service embeds string working relationships with families from the start of their journey.
• To care manage the most complex cases in the care group.
• Involve children (age appropriate in a child centred way), young people, families, carers, groups and partner agencies in all meetings, which may affect them and listen actively to what they have to say. Signposting for advocacy support if needed or wanted.
• Recognise the expertise of individuals, children, families, carers, groups, individuals and partner agencies about their own circumstances, position and have regard for their wishes and feelings.
• Maintain professional standards of contact with children, young people, parents/carers, families, other professionals and voluntary agencies.
• To manage and be accountable with supervision and support for your own social work practice.
• Build honest relationships based on clear communication and make sure all involved understand what will happen with the information children, young people, families, carers, groups and partner agencies give to a social worker.
• Work effectively with others, understand what information other parties can offer and share, to improve services offered to children, young people, families, carers, groups and partner agencies.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Past experience managing a team.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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.