Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Children in Care Team to work full time based in Milton Keynes.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £48,863 per annum.
Main duties:
- To deliver effective social work assessment, care planning and interventions in the most demanding, sensitive and complex cases to improve the safety, development and wellbeing of children involved.
- To supervise the case work of social workers, social work assistants, students assistants, students and child care professionals, acting as a coach and mentor.
- Complex and contentious case management issues are resolved so that positive and timely action can be taken to address risks and meet demands, in conjunction with Deputy/Team Manager.
- Lead responsibility for an area of children’s service development and contribute to partnership working across CYPS and partners, where appropriate.
- To assist the team/deputy team manager in building a string and cohesive team.
- Participate in quality audit of the team’s and other teams work, where relevant.
- Assist in the allocation, prioritisation and planning of caseloads, in conjunction with Deputy/Team Manager.
- Responsibility for chairing professionals and strategic meetings and acting on behalf of the Deputy/Team Manager as appropriate for the team.
- Responsible for bringing expertise and advice, support and guidance to the children’s social work team. They will manage their own caseload of the more demanding and complex cases and manage and supervise the casework of colleagues providing support, guidance and advice as necessary.
- Responsible for the supervision of social workers, social work assistants and child care professionals, their professional development by providing advice, guidance, mentoring. Ensures that training needs are identified and co-ordinated. They will undertake quality audit of cases as requested and will support the induction of new team members.
- Able to work flexibly and be on call for emergencies within their team or other teams in the service.
- Responsibility for chairing professionals and strategic meetings and acting on behalf of the Deputy/Team Manager as appropriate for the team.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Continual professional development.
- Social Work England registered.
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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.
