Senior Practitioner - Youth Services

Sanctuary Personnel; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner for the Youth Services Team. This full-time role involves managing complex cases, ensuring high-quality social work input, and mentoring colleagues. You will be responsible for maintaining accurate case records, progressing children's plans, and supporting the development of a service in partnership with other agencies. This position offers a chance to contribute to meaningful change in the lives of children and families, all while advancing your professional skills in a supportive environment. If you are passionate about making a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Social Work qualification or equivalent is required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex cases and ensure high quality social work input.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to others in the service.
• Develop professional expertise in a specialist area.

Skills

Social Work

Case Management

Mentoring

Legislation Understanding

Education

Social Work Qualification

Job description

Senior Practitioner - Youth Services Team

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

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £44,628 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. 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.
2. To model high quality professional behaviour and to develop and promote notions of authoritative practice within the service.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. To support the development of a service consistent with a model of partnership working with other agencies and children and families and to work with them in enabling children to stay safely at home wherever possible.
7. To take responsibility for your own 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.
8. 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 needs.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. To undertake any other temporary responsibilities aligned with the overall purpose and grade of the role.

Requirements:

1. A social work qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. 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.

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.

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.