Senior Practitioner - Young Adults Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a full-time Senior Practitioner within the Young Adults Team in Haringey. The role involves managing complex cases, ensuring high-quality social work input, and maintaining accurate electronic records. Required qualifications include a social work qualification and an understanding of relevant legislation. The salary for this position is up to £49,890 per annum.

Qualifications

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of complex cases and deliver high quality social work input.
• Maintain accurate electronic case records.
• Chair professional and planning meetings as required.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Young Adults Team to work Full Time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £49,890 per annum.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for a managed caseload of the more complex cases in the service and ensure the delivery of a high quality social work input, consistent with accepted notions of best practice and national and local guidance, in the context of partnership working.
• To model high quality professional behaviour and to develop and promote notions of authoritative practice within the service.
• To maintain accurate and up to date electronic case records in line with Departmental policies and procedures and contribute to the continued development of the database.
• To support the development of a service consistent with models of partnership working with other agencies and children and their families and to work with them in enabling children to stay safely at home wherever possible.
• To chair professional meetings and other planning/strategy meetings as required.
• To actively participate in supervision and performance appraisal.
• To work with the Head of Service, Service Manager and Team Managers in managing the development of the service ensuring it continues to improve and responds to changing need.
• To work with other managers to ensure practice in the service is of the highest standards and that performance information is readily available, analysed and used to inform current and future working practices.
• To develop professional expertise in a specialist area and contribute to the development of policy and procedures in certain practice areas and offer training workshops and other learning and development opportunities to the service and others as required.
• To ensure that all legislation and local council policies regarding Health and Safety are adhered to.
• To undertake any other temporary responsibilities aligned with the overall purpose and grade of the role.

Requirements

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

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, we regretfully are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. Sanctuary takes pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). We provide annual online training on EDI and other compliance topics to support a fair and thorough selection process.

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. We will provide appropriate support throughout the process and into your work placement.