Social Work Job – Advanced Practitioner – Family Support

Our client has a full time vacancy for an Advanced Practitioner to work within a Family Support Team based in South Yorkshire. The pay rate for this role is £28-32 per hour (negotiable).

Duties –
- Supervising the staff team of Qualified Social Workers.
- Managing a small caseload of complex cases.
- Being responsible for the management of enquiries and referrals to the service, with decision making responsibility for level of service.
- Being responsible for allocation of work, highlighting issues with regard to training and staff development, and ensuring that work complies with procedural and statutory requirement.
- Case Planning and decision making with Child in Need, and Child Protection cases, throughout supervision, and by chairing a wide range of meetings, including Child In Need meetings, Core Groups, Looked After Children Planning meetings and Strategy Meetings with the police.
- Undertaking assessments and preparation of reports to the court for use within care proceedings.

Requirements -
You must have a relevant Social Work qualification (BA / MA Social Work / DipSW or equivalent), be professionally registered in the area you wish to work - SSSC for Scotland, CCW for Wales, NISCC for Northern Ireland or HCPC for England*; and be eligible to work in the UK. Candidates applying to work in England can hold SSSC, CCW, NISCC or HPCP registration. You must have a minimum of 2 years post qualified experience. Applicants must have recent supervisory/management and case holding experience within statutory children’s services.

Contact -
This job is advertised by Redwan Miah, if you are interested in this position please click below to apply now or to find out more call 0800 046 1166 or email r.miah@sanctuarypersonnel.com.

What you can expect from Sanctuary:
• Support from a dedicated consultant with many years’ social work experience
• Choice of a variety of positions throughout the UK within many specialism’s
• Excellent rates of pay
• Automatic job alerts tailored to your requirements and experience
• PAYE or LTD company payments
• Excellent Referral Scheme - £250 for each successfully placed referral

About Sanctuary:
• Preferred supplier to 170 local authorities and organisations such as the NHS, Cafcass and the NSPCC
• Headline sponsor of the highly prestigious “Social Worker of the Year Awards”
• We have our own specialist social work training division “Sanctuary Training”
• We have our own CRB umbrella body, including faster online CRB applications
• Double winners of the 2012 national Recruiter Awards for Excellence in the “Best Public Sector Recruitment Agency” and “Best Client Service” categories
• We are six-time winners of the Archant Recruitment awards