Senior Practitioner - Children with Disabilities Team - Norbiton - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks a Senior Practitioner to work in the Children with Disabilities Team. The role involves assessing needs, developing care plans, and engaging with children and families. The ideal candidate will have a Social Work Qualification and experience with children who have disabilities. Benefits include 29 days annual leave, flexible working options, and professional development support.

Benefits

29 days annual leave

Local Government salary and pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Experience working with children and young people who have profound and severe disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Assess needs of children with disabilities and their families.
• Develop and implement individualised plans.
• Chair meetings to ensure plans are on track.

Skills

Experience with children with disabilities

Risk assessment

Intervention skills

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 Kingston for Achieving for Children.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £49,083 per annum.

• Assessing the needs of children with disabilities and their families.
• Developing individualised plans, and chairing meetings to ensure plans are on track in partnership with parents/carers and other professionals involved in the child’s life.
• Use a range of interventions and skills to engage children, young people and their families in working ng toward the objectives of their individual care plans and ensuring that we hear the voice of the child.
• Development and implementation of projects as supported by the Head of Service.
• Contributing to the supporting of students on placement, and newly qualified staff (some opportunity to complete Practice Educators Course/other relevant training).
• The Senior Practitioner in the Children with Disabilities Team will be allocated a caseload of children with a wide variety of disabilities.
• They will undertake cases independently and demonstrate an ability to adapt the approach from first principles to deal with more complex or unusual cases, assessing and managing risks appropriately.
• The Senior Practitioner will develop and share with others specialist knowledge while undertaking a range of assessment and care planning work.

Requirements of this role:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Experience in working with Children and young people who have profound and severe disabilities.
• 29 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days after 2 years and 35 days after 4 years with an additional day off in your birthday month.
• Tailored induction sessions commencing on the date you start working for AfC.
• Hybrid and mobile working (between home and work).
• Local Government salary and pension scheme (LGPS or Teachers Pension).
• Flexible working options – helping to keep a good work life balance.
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
• A range of staff benefits and discounts.
• An excellent learning and development offer to support your career pathway.

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.