Senior Practitioner - Family Safeguarding Team - Hemel Hampstead - Hertford - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Hertford; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner to join the Family Safeguarding Team in Hertfordshire on a full-time basis. The role involves providing statutory support and managing caseloads while ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. Candidates must possess a social work qualification and an understanding of relevant legislation. This permanent position offers a salary of up to £54,460 annually.

Qualifications

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Provide practice development opportunities for own team and partner organisation.
• Responsible for making professional risk-informed complex decisions.
• Provide statutory support to residents in line within statutory guidance and council policy.
• Manage an allocated caseload to deliver specialised support and services.
• Recognise and monitor risk, escalating issues to senior colleagues.
• Control team activities to meet caseload performance targets.

Job description

Social Worker - Adults Multi-Disciplinary Team

Senior Practitioner – Family Safeguarding Team – Hemel Hampstead

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

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £54,460 per annum.

• Provide practice development opportunities for own team and partner organisation.
• Responsible for making professional risk-informed complex decisions.
• Provide statutory support to residents, including the provision of information, advice, assessment, support planning and safeguarding in line within statutory guidance and council policy and procedures.
• Work in partnership with voluntary sector organisations, partners and other to provide integrated and coordinated support to residents and families in the community.
• Manage an allocated caseload to deliver specialised support and services to residents and the community within defined standards.
• Make recommendations on procedural, process and service improvements to enhance overall team and service performance.
• Recognise and monitor risk, escalating issues to more senior colleagues when necessary to ensure that situations are addressed at the earliest possible time.
• Operate effectively within and contribute to the development of organisations and services, including multi-agency and inter-professional settings.
• Provides line management to a small team. This will include translating wider objectives into detailed activities for their team, and monitoring performance against this.
• Control team activities to meet caseloads performance targets and schedules.
• Cascading information on the corporate context so that organisational messages are understood in the team and disseminating best practices to help teams understand and enact changes and improvements.
• May support the control of budgets to deliver service priorities and to ensure appropriate resources are available.

Requirements

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

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.