Senior Practitioner (Cared for Children)

TN United Kingdom; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Practitioner to enhance the care for children in a supportive environment. This role offers the chance to lead a small caseload of complex cases while mentoring fellow social workers. With a commitment to high-quality care, you will help shape the future of vulnerable children and ensure they receive the best opportunities. Join a dedicated team that values your contributions and provides extensive training to help you succeed in your career. If you're passionate about making a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experienced practitioner with strong leadership and social work skills.
• Passionate about achieving good outcomes for children.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex cases while supporting the Team Manager.
• Provide mentoring and oversight for social workers.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Social Work Knowledge

Mentoring and Coaching

Communication Skills

Education

Relevant Professional Qualification (Level 6 or above)

Job description

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Senior Practitioner (Cared for Children), Ashton-under-Lyne

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Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom

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Other

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

30.03.2025

Expiry Date:

14.05.2025

Job Description:

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £44,711 to Scale 39 - £48,710 with a professional bar at Scale 37 - £46,731

Base Location: Ashton Old Library, Old Street, Ashton under-Lyne, OL6 7SG

Assessment Date: 21st April 2025

To apply for this role please upload your CV together with a supporting statement of no more than 2 pages that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification.

Please also include details of your education and training and employment history and any reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement.

The Role

In Tameside we are committed to building a safe, happy, healthy and successful future for our Cared for Children ensuring that they receive the best standard of care and opportunities to achieve optimal outcomes. In order to achieve this we are looking to add an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Practitioner to our Cared for Children service.

The Senior Practitioner role is the first step on the management ladder. You will be part of a team led by a Team Manager. You will hold a small caseload of complex cases whilst supporting the Team Manager in improving the service delivery to our cared for children by providing a mentoring and coaching role for social workers and you will deputise for the team manager in chairing meetings and providing management oversight for cases.

You will contribute to ensuring timely care and permanence planning for children, achieving this through professional and reflective supervision, supporting staff learning and development and ensuring the production of high quality work to improve the outcomes for our Cared for Children.

You will be surrounded by a friendly and supportive network of experienced managers, who will provide you with a comprehensive induction, training, help, and advice to enable you to reach your full potential. We have adopted a trauma informed strength and relationship based approach as our practice framework, and training will be available to all new employees.

Find out more information why you should work for us here

About You

You will be an experienced practitioner with a high level of skills and knowledge who models good practice and is passionate about achieving good outcomes for children. You will have excellent leadership skills and commitment in contributing towards our vision of meeting the holistic needs of our cared for children and are able to work collaboratively and creatively in order to achieve this.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.

** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 5440 or [emailprotected]