Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Practitioner within the MASH Team to work full time based in Wandsworth.
The salary for this permanent Advanced Practitioner job is up to £53,336 per annum.
Main duties:
- Effectively identify and analyse strengths, need and harm with reference to how past history and current events impact on children and their future outcomes.
- Be confident and consistent in decision making, and the ability to apply national and local legislation and thresholds.
- Work and make robust and safe decisions under pressure and strict deadlines.
- Records actions and decision making in a clear and concise manner, whilst being child-focussed.
- Ensure information is appropriately and effectively shared with partner agencies or internal teams.
- Work collaboratively with parents, partner agencies and internal teams to gather information, identify need and risk and determine appropriate plans to meet these.
- Work with families and partner agencies in a strength and relationship based practice framework.
- Demonstrate high levels of individual professional accountability and responsibility.
- Act as recognised expert within the specialist social care field to mentor, provide advice and support to the children’s workforce about making and understanding thresholds decisions.
- To facilitate group supervision within MASH as well as case supervision to practitioners where this is required.
- To assure the quality, effectiveness and appropriateness of social care provided by the team, ensuring that all intervention is conducted in accordance with legislative requirements, the Departments Practice Standards, all relevant policies and procedures and agreed performance targets.
- To manage the allocation of workload across the team in the MASH to ensure that timescales for reaching threshold decisions are met.
- To provide high quality reflective professional supervision to support partners in safety planning for children that sit below the threshold for social work intervention but have a range of complex needs which if not planned for well could escalate and require social work involvement.
- To ensure that all information systems and case records across the team are of high quality and are up to date; support good practice and maintain a focus on positive outcomes for children and their families.
- To carry out and embed the learning from audits into the practice of the team and the wider MASH partnership.
Requirements of this Advanced Practitioner job:
- Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
- Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
- Experience in working with adults in a social care context.
- Experience of community and/or group work.
- Knowledge of adult health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Advanced 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.
