Senior Practitioner - Family Support & Safeguarding Team - Cambridge - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner for the Family Support & Safeguarding Team in Cambridgeshire. The role involves providing professional leadership in complex cases, managing workloads, and ensuring compliance with statutory policies. A salary of up to £47,277 per annum is offered, along with significant employee benefits including a relocation package and development opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive wellbeing package

6 days of protected development time

Relocation package up to £8,000

Scalable retention payments

Refer a Friend Scheme

Access to development academy

Qualifications

• Must be registered with Social Work England.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is required.
• Experience managing complex cases is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in complex case situations.
• Deputise for Team Manager as required.
• Undertake timely assessments and manage workloads.
• Chair childcare meetings and provide reports.

Skills

Professional leadership in complex cases

Risk management

Case management

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Senior Practitioner – Family Support & Safeguarding Team

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

The salary for this Senior Practitioner job is up to £47,277 per annum.

Responsibilities

• To provide professional leadership in situations which have highly complex case arrangements for assessment and support planning, which involve risk, complexity and safety of children, young people, and families.
• To deputise for the Team Manager when required and as agreed by the Service Manager, including responsibility for all key duties of the Team Manager in their absence.
• To undertake timely assessments in accordance with statutory, regulatory, and operational standards, policy, and procedures for the service with a high degree of efficiency.
• To plan, implement and review services, actions and processes for children and young people with statutory, regulatory, and operational standards, policy and procedures for the service.
• To chair and attend relevant childcare meetings to ensure that the outcomes identified at assessment are met through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
• To provide written and verbal reports for a variety of settings, including at court, that are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence.
• To manage the planning, allocation, and review of workload for direct reports so priorities are managed, shortfalls identified and services delivered within capacity and within departmental and partnership policies, procedures and timescales.
• To assess and balance risk and protective factors within a safeguarding framework.
• To provide advice and guidance on case management and effective risk management of complex situations, understand when to take positive risks as appropriate and escalate to the Team Manager as required.
• Maintain accurate and up to date records safely and confidentially in accordance with Cambridgeshire County Council policies and procedures.
• To be responsible, alongside the Team Manager, for the supervision responsibilities for Social Workers and Child Practitioners, including overall responsibility for case outcomes within the teams.
• To prioritise activities and resources to meet team objectives including effective workload management of self and others.
• To carry out duties in a timely and responsive manner, in line with Cambridgeshire County Council standards and behaviours, and the Professional Capability Framework.
• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
• Scalable retention payments of up to £8,850 over a 3 year period, starting after your first full year of employment
• A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be

Requirements

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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.

About Sanctuary and EDI

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

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

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