Senior Social Work Practitioner

Leicestershire County Council; Leicester; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government council is seeking a Senior Practitioner in Hinckley to provide intensive family support, ensuring a high-quality Child in Need service. Candidates must have a degree in Social Work and demonstrate experience in children's social work. Embrace a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach to effectively engage with families. This permanent full-time role offers competitive salary and opportunities for flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experienced level 3 social worker in a children’s social work team.
• Experience in access/duty/intake; children in need and child protection.
• Ability to analyze information under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Provide intensive and focused support to families in their homes.
• Develop effective relationships and behavior change.
• Supervise social work students when necessary.

Skills

Creative approach

Strengths-based approach

Trauma-informed approach

Education

Degree in Social Work or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Hinckley Hub, Granville Road, Hinckley, LE10 0PP

Worker Category: Field-Based Worker

Salary: £43,860 - £47,829 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 23rd November 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

Right support at the right time’. Working with the whole family to offer practical help, building on strengths and community support to improve daily life, positively impacting upon outcomes for children and young people.

Family Help offers intensive and timely family support for families on the continuum from Targeted Early Help to Child in Need.

Family Help focuses on strong and consistent professional relationships, responding more quickly and intensively to families so that they get the right help at the right time. Building on workers’ capacity to listen, understand and respond to trauma, and supporting children and families to build strength, resilience, confidence and parenting capacity. By unlocking the potential of family and community networks, we will support more children to stay safely at home, and when this is not possible, to remain with wider family and friends.

By supporting staff through regular reflective supervision, ensuring positive training and career pathways, staff embrace this more intensive way of working and remain in post longer, providing our families with the professional consistency they need, want and deserve.

Come and join us!

We have a Senior Practitioner vacancy in Hinckley and Bosworth, who will support the Team Manager in ensuring that a high-quality Child in Need service is provided for children and their families.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

We want a creative and supportive worker who will provide intensive and focused support to families in their homes. Developing effective relationships and using strengths-based and trauma-informed approaches will help to motivate and encourage behaviour change, leading to positive differences in children’s lives.

• Degree in Social Work approved by the Social Work England (SWE) or equivalent social work qualification, i.e. Certificate of Qualification in Social Work or Diploma in Social Work. The worker must also be registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced level 3 social worker in a children’s social work team.
• Experience of working in: access/duty/intake; children in need, child protection, care proceedings, safeguarding, and looked-after children work.
• Experience of undertaking Section 47 enquiries.
• Experience in supervising social work students.
• Experience in using performance indicators to monitor and improve performance.
• Able to analyse information to reach sound decisions, often under pressure, and take responsibility for their outcome and regular reporting to the Team manager.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Flexible Working

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

How to Apply

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Katie Cooper – Team Manager

Telephone: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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