Senior Practitioner - Youth Justice Service - Haringey - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency has a new opportunity for a Senior Practitioner within the Youth Justice Team. This full-time role involves managing a team, developing interventions, and handling complex cases. The ideal candidate will have a social work qualification and relevant experience in legislation. The position offers a salary of up to £49,890 per annum and promotes equal opportunity in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Social work qualification or equivalent required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is essential.
• Registration or eligibility for registration is needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide line management to youth justice support workers.
• Lead on the development of specialist interventions.
• Carry a small, highly complex caseload of young people.

Skills

Team management

Intervention development

Mentoring and coaching

Understanding of legislation

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 Youth Justice 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 provide direct line management to a team of youth justice support workers with specific areas of responsibility, ensuring effective service delivery and high levels of performance.
• To lead on the development of specialist interventions across the youth justice service in conjunction with partner agencies.
• To model high-quality professional behaviour and to develop and promote notions of authoritative practice within the service.
• To carry a small, highly complex caseload of young people and families subject to formal youth justice disposals.
• To undertake regular quality assurance processes in relation to case work and other youth justice areas of practice.
• To undertake duty manager responsibilities on a rota basis.
• To maintain accurate and up-to-date electronic case records in line with Departmental policies and procedures.
• To offer case advice, mentoring, coaching, and guidance to others in the service as required, including co-working, joint visiting, assistance with assessment, planning, and delivery processes, and court reports.
• 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 an emphasis on reducing first-time entrants, reoffending, and the use of custody.
• To ensure that protection and safeguarding concerns are central to all youth justice practice and service development initiatives.
• To take responsibility for your personal professional development by maintaining and developing relevant skills and knowledge of current legislation, policy, and social work practice through self-directed learning and via formal PQ route.
• To work with the Head of Service, Service, and Team Managers in managing the development of the service, ensuring it continues to improve and responds to changing need.
• To undertake any other temporary duties consistent with the basic duties and/or objectives of the post.

Requirements:

• A social work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. 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.