Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Children Looked After Team to work full time based in Apsley, Hertfordshire.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £48,587 per annum.
Main duties:
- To care manage the most complex cases in the care group.
- Plan, carry out review and evaluate social work practice.
- To assume responsibility within the care group for research and development, including keeping the team updated, and contributing to the development of service provision/organisation.
- Involve children, young people, families and carers in all meetings, which may affect them and listen actively to what they have to say. Signposting for advocacy support if needed or wanted.
- Continually reassess cases in relation to risk and refer to the Team Manager for direction.
- To manage and be accountable with supervision and support for your own social work practice.
- Build honest relationships based on clear communication and make sure all involved understand what will happen with the information children, young people, families and carers give to the social worker.
- Keep ICS case records accurate and up to date, provide reports and carry out other assessments as required.
- Welcome and encourage service users participation and feedback to produce good outcomes for children, young people and families.
- Be able to represent children, young people, families, carers, groups, individuals and partner agencies to access services.
- Work effectively with others, understand what information other parties can offer and share, to improve services offered to children, young people, families and carers.
- Work closely with other agencies within the community, both statutory and voluntary in support of preventative strategies.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:
- A Social Work Degree or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Social Work England registered.
- Good written and Verbal communication skills.
- Good timekeeping skills.
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.
