Mental Health Practitioner jobs in United Kingdom

Senior Practitioner - Violence & Exploitation Team, based in Haringey, London, England. Sanctuary Personnel has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner to work full time in the Violence & Exploitation Team.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £49,674 per annum.

• 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 case records in line with Departmental 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 promote the welfare of children in care with particular regard for their age, sex, health, race, religion, culture and life experience.
• 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 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 ensure that all legislation and local council policies regarding Health and Safety are adhered to.
• To undertake any other temporary duties consistent with the basic duties and/or objectives of the post.

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

Contact: This Senior Practitioner 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, 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 greatly contributed to winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards and being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). All recruitment consultants and employees undertake annual online training on EDI and other compliance topics.

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 so we can provide appropriate support throughout the process and into your work placement.

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