Senior Practitioner - Family Support & Protection Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner for the Family Support & Protection Team in Basildon, Essex. The role involves providing leadership, managing team performance, and ensuring compliance with safeguarding legislation. Candidates must hold a relevant social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. This full-time position offers a salary of up to £50,290 per annum.

Qualifications

• Social Work England registered.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and professional support.
• Model reflective and evidence-informed practice.
• Manage a defined team or area.

Skills

Leadership

Critical reasoning

Safeguarding

Education

Social work qualification or equivalent

Job description

Senior Practitioner - Family Support & Protection Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Family Support & Protection Team to work full time based in Basildon, Essex.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £50,290 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
• Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.
• Use sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
• Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
• Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.
• Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk taking situations.
• Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
• Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
• Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.
• Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.
• Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.
• Manage complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.
• Promote positive working relationships in and across the team and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
• Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
• Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirements of data quality legislation.
• When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or influence wider service budgets.

Requirements/ qualifications

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

Contact & application

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

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. Sanctuary will provide appropriate support throughout the process and into your work placement.

Sanctuary Personnel is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).