Senior Practitioner - Youth Justice Service - Haringey - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner to join the Youth Justice Service in Haringey. The role involves managing complex cases, mentoring staff, maintaining records, and ensuring quality service delivery. Candidates must hold a social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. The position offers a salary of up to £51,903 per annum and is a full-time role.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Manage complex cases and ensure delivery of quality social work.
• Model high quality professional behaviour and develop authoritative practice.
• Maintain accurate records in line with Department policies.
• Provide case advice and mentoring to others in the service.
• Support the development of partnerships with families and agencies.
• Collaborate with managers to ensure highest practice standards.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Social Work registration

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Youth Justice Service to work full time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £51,903 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 progress children’s plans in accordance with current local protocols, this may include writing statements within timescales, giving evidence on behalf of the Local Authority in Family Proceedings Court and any other court within the Family Division as required.
• To maintain accurate and up to date electronic records in line with Department policies and procedures and contribute to the continued development of the database.
• To offer case advice, mentoring, coaching and guidance to others in the service as required including co-working, joint visiting, assistance with court statements and other reports and assessments.
• 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 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 act as Duty Manager as required by the Team Manager.
• To undertake any other temporary duties consistent with the basic duties and/or objectives of the post.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:

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

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.

Additional information

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

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.