Senior Practitioner - Parenting Assessment Service - Redbridge - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Ilford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Ilford is seeking a Senior Practitioner to oversee complex cases and support team development. The ideal candidate will be a registered social worker with experience in Adult Social Work. Responsibilities include managing assessments, advising team members, and ensuring compliance with legislation. This role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England.
• Experience within Adult Social Work.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex cases and assessments.
• Supervise and develop team members.
• Represent management at meetings.
• Write reports on operational issues.
• Ensure compliance with statutory responsibilities.

Skills

Complex case management

Child Protection Assessments

Team leadership

Legislation awareness

Consultation and guidance

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £47,661 per annum.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for complex cases and detailed assessments including, where appropriate, Child Protection Assessments.
• To assist the Manager, as required in aspects of the Team’s work including the allocation of work; maintaining, developing and encouraging high professional standards; and supporting the supervision and development of individual staff.
• To keep up to date with good practice guidance, current legislation, Government initiatives and local polices and procedures with a view to playing a lead role in disseminating these within the team.
• To provide consultation, advice and guidance to Team members on professional issues.
• To assist the Head of Service in developing and maintaining projects within agreed timetables.
• To represent the Manager or Head of Service at internal and external meetings where appropriate, and to act as Deputy to the Manager.
• To write complex reports and briefing papers on policy and operational issues for the Team Manager, Head of Service, Chief Officer of Children and Families and to participate in a range of meetings, case conferences or task forces, service and project management groups.
• To assist in ensuring that team members fulfil expectations in relation to the Council’s statutory responsibilities, policies and standards and that the practice is anti-discriminatory.
• To assist the Manager, when required, in the performance management for all staff.
• To assist in ensuring individual training needs are identified and appropriate training plans are developed for the team.
• To actively participate in the overall management and development of the service through Team Meetings and Service wide meetings; attend and participate positively in Team and other meetings as required with a view to promoting the development of an integrated response to clients needs, concentrating on the delivery of an efficient and effective service.
• To maintain management information systems and provide regular reports identifying trends and proposing solutions where problems are identified.
• To provide cover for the work of other Senior Practitioners and Team Managers as required and arrange cover for other Team members across the section and Children & Families where necessary.
• To participate fully in the development and maintenance of effective liaison and co-operation with the local community, community groups, other Authorities, agencies and non-statutory organisations.
• To provide management, consultation, professional support, advice and guidance to the immediate team and others across Children & Families.
• Any other duties appropriate to this area of work and consistent with the level of the post, as may from time to time are required.

Requirements

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.
• Experience within Adult Social Work.

Contact

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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 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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