Senior Practitioner - Coventry

Benefits:

• Continuous training and professional development opportunities
• Staff wellbeing events throughout the year
• Team building days
• Employee Assistance Programme - this is a scheme run by [Employer hidden] for its employees. It enables staff to gain access to qualified advisors for a wide range of services day or night.
• Cash plan
• Private Medical Insurance
• A pension scheme with Standard Life, [Employer hidden] contributes 5% towards your pension, also matching additional employee contributions up to 7.5%. The company will increase its contribution to 10% after an employee has reached their 10 years’ service, on condition employees contribute the same.
• Life Assurance - Group Life Assurance Policy with Unun Life. The scheme provides a tax-free benefit to all permanent employees, paying a lump sum amount of 2 x salary in the event of death in service.
• Free tea, coffee, water and fruit for all staff
• Flu vaccinations
• Emergency loan scheme
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Bicycle Scheme
• Enhanced holidays
• 27 days plus bank holidays - up to 5 years continuous employment
• 32 days plus 8 bank holidays - over 5 years continuous employment

Purpose of Job

To be part of the Senior Management Team which is responsible for undertaking comprehensive assessments with vulnerable children and their families in a residential setting, applying the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (2000) and adhering to Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023).

Further, to supervise and oversee a team of Family Assessment Workers, providing on hand support and advise as well as supervisor oversight, review of performance and to provide a high quality and dependable standard of service which meet our organisations values and standards.

Background

[Employer hidden] is a UK registered non-profit making organisation established in 1895, we are one of the leading Family Assessment Centres in England and Wales. The whole emphasis of our organisation is to safeguard children.

We have been conducting quality Family Assessments for over 30 years and over two sites: Coventry and Birmingham.

Our purpose is to provide the Courts and other relevant parties concerned with the safeguarding of children, a range of high quality, independent assessments, interventions and services regarding referred parents/carers’ abilities to keep children safe, and to assess their capacity and potential for promoting children’s continuing wellbeing.

Please Refer to JD/PS for details of the job

Successful applicants will be invited into a interview week commencing 4th May.