Senior Practitioner - Fenland Family Support and Safeguarding Team

NHS; Wisbech; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Senior Practitioner/Senior Social Worker for their Family Support and Safeguarding Team in Wisbech. This role emphasizes leadership in complex cases, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and contribution to a supportive work environment aimed at improving children's outcomes. The position offers a full-time permanent contract with a range of benefits and development opportunities.

Benefits

Wellbeing package

Protected time for Continuous Professional Development

Relocation package

Retention payments scheme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Access to Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker with relevant registration required.
• Experience in child welfare and safeguarding essential.
• Ability to manage complex cases effectively and provide supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate high-complexity child welfare cases.
• Provide concise reports for court and case reviews.
• Support and supervise fellow practitioners and new staff.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Analytical

Education

Social Work England registration

Job description

Job summary

We have an exciting vacancy in the Family Support and Safeguarding Team for a Senior Practitioner/Senior Social Worker. For more information please see the below.

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting vacancy in the Family Support and Safeguarding Team for a Senior Practitioner/Senior Social Worker. For more details about the role please see the below.

About us

We have a wide range of great benefits if you join us as a colleague at Cambridgeshire County Council. To find out more please see below.

Details Date posted

02 June 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£44,260 to £47,277 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

VP478696F7

Job locations

Wisbech

PE13 2JD

Job description Job responsibilities

Are you a experienced Social Worker and ready to take the next step in your career? Were looking for two Senior Practitioner to join us in our Fenland Family Support and Safeguarding Teams!

Practitioners in the Family Support & Safeguarding team tell us how much they really value the supportive relationships they have with their colleagues and how flexibly everyone chips in to help one another.

We manage a varied caseload of Child in Need, Children in need of Protection, Public Law Outline and care proceedings, focusing on children up to the age of 18. You will all use a Motivational Interviewing approach where you will act in partnership with children and their families to achieve sustainable change and improved outcomes for children. You will be supported in this by a multi-disciplinary team that includes drug and alcohol recovery workers, and adult domestic abuse workers, supported by our practice methods.

This is an exciting and creative time to join us in Family Support and Safeguarding, and we would welcome applications from a diverse range of workers to enhance our existing workforce. The role is hybrid with a mix of home and office working. The office base is Awdry House in Wisbech. One role covers the March area and the other the Wisbech area.

If this sounds like an environment where you would thrive, we would love to hear from you! For more information, call Nathalie on 01223 475920 or email [e-mail].

Closing date 15th June 2025.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensivewellbeing package to coverall aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days ofprotected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• Arelocation 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
• ARefer a Friend Schemewhere if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, well pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to ourCambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.

What will you be doing?

Day-to-day responsibilities of a Senior Practitioner in Family Support and Safeguarding include:

• Providingleadership in high complex cases which involve risk, complexity and safety of children, young people and families.
• Providing written and verbal reports for a variety of settings - including for attendance at court - that are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence.
• Leading, guiding and directingSocial Workers and Child Practitioners, supporting with their performance and development, including supervision.
• Support in planning, allocation and review of cases.
• Support with the recruitment and induction of staff.

About you

We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

You must:

• Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
• Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.If you dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-career

Job description Job responsibilities

Are you a experienced Social Worker and ready to take the next step in your career? Were looking for two Senior Practitioner to join us in our Fenland Family Support and Safeguarding Teams!

Practitioners in the Family Support & Safeguarding team tell us how much they really value the supportive relationships they have with their colleagues and how flexibly everyone chips in to help one another.

We manage a varied caseload of Child in Need, Children in need of Protection, Public Law Outline and care proceedings, focusing on children up to the age of 18. You will all use a Motivational Interviewing approach where you will act in partnership with children and their families to achieve sustainable change and improved outcomes for children. You will be supported in this by a multi-disciplinary team that includes drug and alcohol recovery workers, and adult domestic abuse workers, supported by our practice methods.

This is an exciting and creative time to join us in Family Support and Safeguarding, and we would welcome applications from a diverse range of workers to enhance our existing workforce. The role is hybrid with a mix of home and office working. The office base is Awdry House in Wisbech. One role covers the March area and the other the Wisbech area.

If this sounds like an environment where you would thrive, we would love to hear from you! For more information, call Nathalie on 01223 475920 or email [e-mail].

Closing date 15th June 2025.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensivewellbeing package to coverall aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days ofprotected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• Arelocation 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
• ARefer a Friend Schemewhere if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, well pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to ourCambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.

What will you be doing?

Day-to-day responsibilities of a Senior Practitioner in Family Support and Safeguarding include:

• Providingleadership in high complex cases which involve risk, complexity and safety of children, young people and families.
• Providing written and verbal reports for a variety of settings - including for attendance at court - that are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence.
• Leading, guiding and directingSocial Workers and Child Practitioners, supporting with their performance and development, including supervision.
• Support in planning, allocation and review of cases.
• Support with the recruitment and induction of staff.

About you

We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

You must:

• Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
• Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.If you dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-career

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details Employer name

Cambridgeshire County Council

Address

Wisbech

PE13 2JD

Employer's website

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Employer details Employer name

Cambridgeshire County Council

Address

Wisbech

PE13 2JD

Employer's website

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)