Senior Practitioner - Family Safeguarding Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Hertford; On-site; GBP 49,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Practitioner - Family Safeguarding Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Family Safeguarding Team to work Full Time based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £48,587 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. Care manage the most complex cases in care group.
2. Plan, carry out review and evaluate social work practice.
3. Assume responsibility within the care group for research and development, including keeping team updated, and contributing to the development of service provision/organisation.
4. Assess needs thoroughly and to a good standard - analysing risk and developing integrated multi-agency safeguarding plans in line with Working Together 2015.
5. Involve children (age appropriate in a child centred way), young people, families, carers, groups and partner agencies in all meetings, which may affect them and listen actively to what they have to say. Signposting for advocacy support if needed or wanted.
6. Recognise the expertise of individuals, children, families, carers, groups, individuals and partner agencies about their own circumstances, position and have regard for their wishes and feelings.
7. Maintain professional standards of contact with children, young people, parents/carers, families, other professionals and voluntary agencies.
8. Work with individuals, young people, families, carers to develop and/or maintain independence, including involving individuals, children (age appropriate in a child centred way) young people, families, carers, groups and partner agencies to support groups and networks and support them in extending their involvement.
9. Manage and be accountable with supervision and support for your own social work practice.
10. Keep children, young people, families, carers, groups, individuals and partner agencies updated about what steps you are going to take.
11. Build honest relationships based on clear communication and make sure all involved understand what will happen with the information children, young people, families, carers, groups and partner agencies give to a social worker.
12. Work effectively with others, understand what information other parties can families, carers, groups and partner agencies.
13. Work closely with other agencies within the community, both statutory and voluntary in support of preventative strategies.

Requirements:

1. A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. 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.

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 role 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.