Senior Practitioner - Children with Disabilities Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Luton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner to work full time in Luton within the Children with Disabilities Team. You'll manage a complex caseload, mentor less experienced social workers, and ensure compliance with child protection laws. Ideal candidates will have a Social Work qualification and substantial knowledge of relevant legislation. Competitive salary up to £41,496 per annum.

Qualifications

• Registered or eligible for registration.
• This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body.

Responsibilities

• Act in a consultative and mentoring role to less experienced social workers.
• Gather information to complete clear, accurate and holistic professional assessments.
• Create effective SMART plans and monitor progress.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Case management

Effective communication

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Senior Practitioner - Children with Disabilities Team

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

Salary: up to £41,496 per annum.

Overview

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 requirements are met.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 coordinate the multi-agency approach to promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of child/young people.
• Create 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.
• 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.
• 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 (CPD) with 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.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).

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, 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 reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). We provide annual online training on EDI and compliance training courses to support 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. We will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

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