Family Court Adviser - Private Law Team

Location Birmingham
Job type Permanent
Salary £38,974 - 43,459 per year
Reference 173171

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Family Court Advisor within the Private Law Team to work full time based in Birmingham.

The salary for this permanent Family Court Advisor job is up to £43,459 annum.

Main duties:

  • To provide high quality early safeguarding and child protection advice, assessments, and analysis to the Court on the needs and best interests of children subject to or involved in Family proceedings.
  • To ensure that the well-being and safety of the child is paramount throughout Cafcass involvement in the case.
  • To ensure that all incidents or risks of significant harm to the child are dealt with in accordance with the relevant Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) procedures and Cafcass policies and procedures.
  • To directly work with, or on behalf of children & families to achieve safe and positive outcomes for children, referring to other services where this will produce benefit.
  • To produce high quality work with a rapid throughput, combining increasing productivity with quality of casework.
  • For all work produced to be rated good or outstanding in internal audits, with expectations tolerated where the learning gained from these exceptions can be absorbed and applied to future work.
  • To be fully engaged with Cafcass policy that all cases must be allocated and to adopt a proportionate approach to work, assessing the needs of the case. In response to which is lower when demands are higher and vice versa.
  • To carry out an advanced social work level case analysis of the child’s circumstances and to ensure this is updated if circumstances change, and for roles in Cafcass intake to provide advice to local teams based on initial case analysis.
  • To provide advanced social work level advice and assist the Court to achieve a timely conclusion to proceedings and the best possible outcome for child.
  • To administer and comply with orders made by the Family Court as required and conduct the necessary enquires in accordance wit relevant legislation and Court Rules.
  • To provide a clear child-focused plan of work in each case which is monitored and subject to ongoing review.
  • To ensure the appointment and instruction of legal representation for the child as required, and work in partnership with the relevant agencies for each case.
  • To keep up to date with change in legislation, Court Rules, policies, national directives, procedures and best practice developments.
  • To participate in training and development programmes in line with the agreed individual personal development plans, taking responsibility for your continued professional development, learning and improvement, through ever greater self-regulation supported by active and positive supervision in line with the Cafcass Supervision Policy.

Requirements of this Family Court Advisor job:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Continual professional development.
  • Social Work England registered.
  • 3 years’ Social Work experience.

Contact:
This Family Court Advisor job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.