Senior Practitioner - Child Protection Team

Sanctuary Personnel; England; On-site; GBP 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a full-time Senior Practitioner for the Child Protection Team in Luton. This position offers a salary of up to £46,034 per annum. The role involves managing a complex caseload, creating effective care plans, and liaising with various professionals to safeguard children. Candidates must possess a relevant social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. The position emphasizes professional development and adherence to legislative requirements.

Qualifications

• Social Work Qualification or equivalent is required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is crucial.
• Must be Social Work England registered.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload including children at risk.
• Support Team Managers by mentoring and providing peer supervision.
• Gather information and complete holistic professional assessments.
• Create and monitor SMART plans to meet service user needs.
• Build positive relationships with children and their families.
• Maintain case files in compliance with GDPR regulations.
• Provide witness statements for Court when required.
• Take responsibility for professional development and reflective practice.

Skills

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Social Work England registration

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner - Child Protection Team to work full time based in Luton.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £46,034 per annum.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for a complex caseload including those children at risk and subject to care proceedings and child protection plans to make a positive difference for children, young people and families in the town, by driving up the quality of practice and partnership across the town and its services, whilst ensuring legislative requirements are met.
• Support Team Managers to promote excellence within the team, i.e. providing peer supervision, mentoring and deputising in the absence of Managers.
• To gather information, to complete clear, accurate and holistic professional assessments of need and risk in respect of children and families. Critically analyse all relevant information and take the lead role to co-ordinate the multi-agency approach to promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of child/young people.
• Creating effective SMART plans referring to the Practice Framework, implement, monitor and review using the appropriate available resources ensuring needs are met through negotiation and consultation with professional colleagues and service users.
• Liaise and work with other professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people. Build positive relationships with children and their families through promoting participation and undertaking direct work to ensure that their voices, wishes and feelings are heard.
• Update and maintain high quality case files in the council's management information system, Liquid Logic, ensuring that all key information about child's circumstances and plans are recorded within timescales and comply with General Data Protection Regulations.
• Provide witness statements for Court when required, accountable to the requirements of both internal/external agencies in line with Luton Borough Council Policies and Procedures.
• To take personal responsibility for own professional development and reflective practice and keep up to date with changes to legislation, court rules, policies, procedures and best practice development i.e. for your Continued Professional Development and progression through regular check-ins and supervisions. Attending training through the Social Work Academy and Research in Practice.

Requirements

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• 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.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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.

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