Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Safeguarding Team to work Full Time based in Herefordshire.
The salary for this Senior Practitioner job is up to £63,824 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 experience 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 carry a workload which predominantly consists of highly complex cases.
- To develop and keep up to date with specialist areas of knowledge and practice as required, and to make this knowledge/expertise available to the team, area or division as appropriate.
- Plan, implement and evaluate the outcomes of social work interventions with children and young people.
- Develop effective working partnerships with those with parental responsibility, carers and significant others in the life of the child or young person.
- Ensure that planning of service and team development takes account of assessed need and results of regulatory inspections, where relevant.
- Contribute to the induction of all new staff in consultation with managers and the workforce support officer.
- To assist the team manager in identifying issues of performance with staff in line with corporate policy and procedures.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:
- 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.
