Senior Practitioner

Main Responsibility

As a Senior Practitioner in the Assessment and Stay together team, you will:

• Be a role model for your team colleagues and lead by example in achieving a positive impact in the work we are doing with children and families and promoting a positive and resilient culture.
• Have experience of working with complex situations of children on child protection plans, children in PLO and Proceedings. You will demonstrate knowledge and skills in working effectively with other professionals and agencies to ensure children can continue to live safely at home.
• Have extensive experience in managing children in our care who present with complex and at times challenging needs in order to keep them safe in their placements and also work actively toward reunification with their parents when safe to do so.  You must evidence a good understanding of attachment disorder and behaviours associated with what can be seen as difficult to manage behaviours.
• Be able to navigate childcare proceedings, have skills in writing purposeful  assessments which are key in  making the right decisions for children in Court proceedings. You will be expected to have experience and skills in permanency care planning.
• Have a sound knowledge and understanding of the different permanency options and processes to achieve good outcomes for children.
• Have good awareness of the key legislations, policies, guidance linked to children requiring statutory intervention and care planning.
• Have skills in preventing and managing placement breakdowns, alternative provisions, the LADO process and where possible be ABE/MAIVIC trained.
• Be able to offer peer support, supervision and mentoring relevant to children supported in the team and an ability to develop others.
• Be familiar with and understand key performance indicators and  processes to measure and sustain effective practice.
• Work in partnership with your Team Manager to ensure the team understands the priorities set out by the district lead and works towards achieving key service delivery objectives and  a good standard of performance overall.

The Ideal Candidate

Overall, our Senior Practitioners need to be a:

• Qualified Social Worker with a minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience
• Registered with Social Work England
• Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle

But above all, you will bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it is safe to do so.

For more information about this vacancy or for an informal chat please contact Denise Baker at [contact hidden]                                                                                      or Katrina Beaumont at  [contact hidden].

Senior Practitioner

• Salary £40,478 - £44,539 plus car allowance £963 per annum and other benefits
• Frequency Annual
• Job Reference staffscc/TP/20/191
• Contract Type Permanent Full time
• Working Hours 37
• Closing Date 23 January, 2023
• Job Category Social Work - Qualified Childrens
• Business Unit Children's Services
• Location Cannock, United Kingdom
• Posted on 18 November, 2022