Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Assessment Team to work full time based in Herefordshire.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £42,403 per annum.
Main duties:
- Manage a caseload of complex cases to ensure resources are utilised effectively.
- Maintain continual professional development in social work practice whilst modelling this to other members of staff and promoting a string learning culture.
- Use professional skills and expertise to provide case reflection and practice management to team members to ensure compliance with national and departmental policies, procedures and quality standards.
- Support team members to further their professional knowledge and development to improve the overall quality of practice.
- Attend court, where appropriate, to assist the team in ensuring that key professional input and expertise is provided to high profile and sensitive cases.
- Liaise regularly with peer colleagues throughout the Directorate to ensure social work staff deliver existing and new practices consistently and to a high standard across the Directorate.
- To supervise social work students on placement or non-social work staff within the team.
- Promote purposeful social work practice and undertake regular clinical and case work supervision that is reflective and outlines clearly the next steps to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.
- Manage effective communication of practice, service and organisational issues within the team and work collaboratively across other social work teams, services and with partners to provide high level integrated support to children and families.
- Ensure that all aspects of work that the views, feelings and wishes of children, young people and heir parents/carers are taken seriously and used to appropriately inform their assessment, plans and development and performance of services.
- Promote the voice of the child and ensure al children and young people’s plans are robust, SMART and are in a language that the children and their families will understand.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner role:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.
