Senior Practitioner - Social Work Academy

Sanctuary Personnel; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A committed recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner within the Looked After Children Team based in Luton. This permanent role offers a salary up to £46,034 per annum. The successful candidate will provide reflective supervision and mentoring for Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) while supporting complex cases and promoting children's welfare. Candidates must hold a recognized social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.

Qualifications

• Registration with Social Work England is required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide reflective supervision to support NQSWs.
• Promote resilience and empower NQSWs.
• Co-work complex cases influencing decision making.

Skills

Reflective supervision

Advocacy

Complex case co-working

Assessment skills

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Looked After Children Team to work full time based in Luton.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £46,034 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Provide reflective supervision to explore the NQSWs practice and factors influencing their practice responses (including emotions, assumptions, power relations and the wider social context). Develop a shared understanding of the knowledge base informing their analysis and the limitations of their thinking, and use this understanding to inform next steps. Guide the NQSWs with problem solving and assisting them with planning and decision making.
• For new starters reflective supervision will be provided weekly for the first six weeks and fortnightly until the NQSWs six month review and a minimum of bi-monthly thereafter.
• Promote resilience and empower NQSWs to advocate for themselves and the children and families they work with. This includes professional challenge with managers and colleagues.
• Co-work complex cases and use advanced professional knowledge, skills, experience and initiative to support the NQSWs to develop assessment skills to identify and analyse risk to children and develop safety and supportive plans. Co-work cases in crisis with the NQSWs, directing the social workers and influencing decision making on the case. Support NQSWs practice development towards excellence.
• Support and mentor the practice development of our NQSWs by reading through work before it is submitted to the Team Manager for authorizing and informally quality assuring their case files against 'what good looks like'.
• Support the NQSWs to gather and analyse sensitive and confidential information on families and record on LCS, collating key information relating to children's safeguarding and protection.
• Contribute to the NQSW assessment reviews at three, six and twelve months of their assessed year of employment.

Requirements

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

Contact

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.

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