Senior Practitioner (Safeguarding)

Tripod Executive; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Senior Practitioner to join their Safeguarding & Support Service. This role is crucial in supporting children and young people through complex cases, ensuring their voices are heard, and delivering high-quality, evidence-based assessments. The ideal candidate will thrive in a busy environment, demonstrating resilience and effective communication skills while mentoring less experienced colleagues. With a commitment to reducing caseloads and providing mobile working technology, this position offers a supportive culture and generous benefits, including a competitive salary package and extensive leave entitlements. Join a team that values diversity and is dedicated to making a positive impact in the community.

Benefits

31 days leave + bank holidays

Health and wellbeing support

Local government pension scheme

Discount schemes across leisure and culture

Recruitment & retention payment

Relocation offer (subject to eligibility)

Qualifications

• Resilient and authoritative practitioner with child-focused approach.
• Experience in managing complex cases and high-quality assessments.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex cases and plan timely interventions for children.
• Liaise with internal and external partners to ensure child safety.

Skills

Child Protection

Complex Case Management

Written Communication

Verbal Communication

Evidence-Based Assessments

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Tools

Mobile Working Technology

Job description

About the Service

The Safeguarding & Support Service invites applications from qualified and child-focused social workers at Senior Practitioner level. The service plays a vital role in continuing the child’s journey when cases are transferred from the Assessment Service and where longer-term involvement is needed.
We are a busy and supportive service working with children and young people subject to child protection and children in need plans including Public Law Outline pre-proceedings work, as well as initiating care proceedings.

About You

The ideal candidate will need to be a resilient and authoritative practitioner who places children and young people and their welfare at the heart of your practice. You’ll manage complex cases, planning intervention and support in a timely manner and, always, making sure that children and young people’s voices are heard, positively influence your practice, and recorded consistently. This will include liaising effectively and efficiently with both internal and external partners to ensure that children and young people are safe. Therefore, your written and verbal communication would be second to none and you would be used to providing high quality, evidence-based assessments.

We’ll also expect you to support your Team Manager in developing the team, e.g., supporting and mentoring ASYE and less experienced colleagues, and helping to implement and drive a high-performance culture. In return, we will give you the time and support you need to make a difference. Alongside our generous learning and development offer, we offer a competitive salary package which includes a recruitment & retention payment and relocation offer (subject to eligibility, terms and conditions). We are actively working to reduce caseloads across the service and provide mobile working technology so that you spend more time with children and young people, doing what really matters.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.