Senior Practitioner - Children in Care - Maidenhead - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks a Senior Practitioner for the Children in Care Team in Maidenhead. The role involves managing complex cases, mentoring social workers, and ensuring compliance with legislation to improve outcomes for children and families. Candidates must have a Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. The position offers a salary up to £47,708 per annum.

Qualifications

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent is required.
• Registered with Social Work England.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload for children at risk.
• Consult and mentor less experienced social workers.
• Complete accurate assessments of need and risk.
• Undertake statutory duties under The Children Act.
• Liaise with professionals to promote child well-being.
• Take responsibility for personal professional development.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Social Work qualification

Social Work England registered

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Children in Care Team to work full time based in Maidenhead.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £47,708 per annum.

• 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 partnerships across the town and its services, whilst ensuring legislative requirments are met.
• Act in a consultative and mentoring role to less experienced social workers to ensure reflective practice in all single or multi agency assessments, including the development of outcome focused plans. This will include supporting less experienced staff with court proceedings and chairing core group and multi-agency meetings.
• 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.
• Undertake statutory duties under The Children Act, and other legislation and guidance relating to children and families e.g. care proceedings, arrangements for adoption/permanency, risk assessments and investigations in relation to the protection of children. Including arrangements for obtaining and carrying out Court Orders, attending court as the Council’s representative and providing instruction to our legal counsel.
• Liaise and work with professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people. Build positive relationship with children and their families through promoting participation and undertaking direct work to ensure that their voices, wishes and feelings are heard.
• 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 for your Continued Professional Development (CPD) and progression through regular check-ins and supervisions. Attending training through the Social Work Academy and Research in Practice.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:

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

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.

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