Senior Practitioner - Assessment and Early Intervention Team

Location City of London
Job type Contract
Salary Up to £35.00 per hour
Consultant Jess Ling
Call +44 7361 589745
Reference HQ00096043_1567174489

Sanctuary Social Care has locum vacancy for a Senior Practitioner to work full-time based in London in an Assessment and Early Intervention Team. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in children's services and be registered with the HCPC.

The pay rate for this locum Senior Practitioner role is £30 to £35 per hour (LTD Company Equivalent) and is a 3-month contract.

Duties:

  • To provide high quality casework and service to vulnerable children and families, ensuring social work practice is in the best interest of children.
  • Safeguard children and improve outcomes for children in terms of their health, education, social and emotional well-being. This involves providing a service to users that ensures that assessments, care plans and actions are in place to promote the longer-term safety, welfare and well-being of children and young people, enabling them to maximise their life chances.
  • Provision of social work services, working with individual service users, providing early help, undertaking assessments, interventions and reviews, in line with professional frameworks and National Performance indicators and other relevant local and national guidance, for children in need, those subject to child protection and criminal justice processes, looked after children and care leavers and their carers; providing advice, assistance, counselling and other forms of personal assistance with the aim of empowering, enhancing and protecting individual welfare.
  • Contribute, as an active member to a positive team culture, to achieve the objectives of the service, working with Signs of Safety as our overarching analytical practice framework.
  • Be a positive role model for children and families and build partnerships with others to work collaboratively.
  • Prioritise and respond to requests for assistance, establishing enough information about the needs of clients to be able to determine the level of risk and the nature and type of support required. Maintain accurate case records to include information and analysis, and fulfil national timescales, procedures and statutory duties in line with national and local policies, practices and procedures. Carry out assessments of needs and risk, and liaise with other specialists and agencies as necessary, and enable them to be involved and contribute to the process.
  • Ensure that assessments, planning and interventions pay attention to individual needs, strengths and wishes, and include critical reflection and analysis, aims, and options to achieve change. Develop and progress care plans as necessary, ensuring that care plans include clear statements of purpose, change, outcome and impact for child and family social work.
  • Undertake work respectfully and collaboratively with service users, and consider the views of children, young people and their carers and to facilitate inclusive practice to ensure participation is achieved.
  • Initiate, chair and participate in reviews, cases conferences and other professional meetings, and provide reports as required. Undertake court work as required.
  • Negotiate with users, carers and internal and external partners concerning the methods to meet the needs identified by each assessment. Plan services to meet individual needs in cooperation with children and families; to form trusted and effective working relationships with relatives, carers, friends, health and colleagues from other agencies [e.g. education, health, police, employers, and housing.
  • Maintain awareness of current research findings and ensure all assessments and plans are informed by research and evidence.
  • Actively engage with supervision and review / appraisal arrangements and be able to receive, critically reflect and learn from feedback, to review and develop the capabilities and competencies as set out in the Person Specification as required. Participate in the creation and implementation of a personal training plan in conjunction with management.
  • Take responsibility for managing own workload and caseload.
  • Maintain high standards of professional practice and conduct and promote and enhance such practice within the organisation.
  • Maintain an effective system for reviewing assessments, care plans, actions and services.
  • Ensure that services are efficiently and effectively provided and identify gaps in services and advise managers accordingly. Actively seek out feedback on services.
  • Promote an awareness of, and commitment to, the Council's equal opportunities policy in relation to both employment and service delivery.

Requirements of the Senior Practitioner:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current HCPC registration
  • Significant senior level frontline experience within children's services

Contact:

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Jess Ling; 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.

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 by contacting us. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.