Senior Practitioner - Child Protection/Children in Need Team

Location
Job type Contract
Salary Up to £33.00 per hour
Reference HQ00105513_1585736719

Sanctuary Social Care has locum vacancy for a Senior Practitioner to work full-time based in Warrington, within the Child Protection/Children in Need Team. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in Children's Services and be registered with Social Work England.

The pay rate for this locum Senior Practitioner role is £33 per hour (Assignment rate) and is a 3-month contract.

In Warrington we want all children and families to benefit from high quality and purposeful relationships with professionals. We believe this will help create the best opportunities for people to change and reach their full potential. We also believe one of the most effective way to improve the outcomes for children and families is through providing our social workers with the best conditions in which they can thrive.

Alongside redesigning our social work teams, we have placed a strong emphasis on our workforce development strategy. We are working alongside the Centre for Systemic Social Work, who are providing a comprehensive training programme to social workers and managers across our teams and supporting our senior leadership team to embed systemic based practice across our services.

Duties of the Senior Practitioner:

  • Case holding CIN, CP and possible care proceedings, as well giving less experienced staff opportunities to shadow, observe and/or joint work.

Requirements of the Senior Practitioner:

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

Contact:

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Vaughan Graham; 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.