Social Work Senior Practitioner- Safeguarding - Kingston upon Thames - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Practitioner for their Safeguarding Team in Kingston. The role involves safeguarding young people, managing complex cases, and providing consultations to social workers. Candidates need a recognized social work qualification and must be registered with Social Work England. The position offers a salary of up to £43,860 annually.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Safeguard and promote the welfare of young people.
• Manage an agreed caseload in compliance with objectives.
• Undertake direct social work responsibilities for assigned cases.
• Provide casework consultation to other social workers.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Education

Registered with Social Work England

Job description

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

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £43,860 annum.

Main Duties

• To safeguard and promote the welfare of young people, giving due consideration to their race, culture, religion and linguistic background.
• To manage an agreed caseload of children and young people in compliance with casework objectives, statutory and departmental policy and procedural requirements, consistently maintaining the highest level of professional standards, including the most complex cases.
• To undertake direct social work responsibilities as an allocated worker to the children and young people assigned, investigating concerns regarding a child or young person’s safety or wellbeing, make an assessment of the risk and protective factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action.
• Complete longer-term work with families in order to meet identified need and improve outcomes for children.
• To ensure the provision of clear written reports to child protection conferences, reviews, planning meetings and any other purpose as required, ensuring good quality casework analysis and risk assessment is evident throughout.
• To ensure reports are prepared for Court are of a high quality, and to support and prepare workers in the Court process, including giving evidence in Court, as required.
• Maintain and update case notes and other records, write reports as required; if required, give evidence in Court in relation to court proceedings.
• To ensure the planning and review of statutory work with children and young people is in accordance with statutory regulation and to produce written reports and other documentation for this purpose.
• To provide casework consultation to other social workers in the team as directed by the Team Leader or Head of Safeguarding. May also supervise students, trainees, less experienced professional team members, support staff or volunteers.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job

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

Contact

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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. 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.