Senior Practitioner - Children in Care

Location Hertfordshire
Job type Contract
Salary Up to £35.00 per hour
Reference HQ00102349_1579710800

Sanctuary Social Care has locum vacancy for a Senior Practitioner to work full-time based in Hertfordshire, within the Children in Care. 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 £35 per hour (LTD Company Equivalent) and is a 3-month contract.

Duties of the Senior Practitioner:

  • Ensuring Child Protection procedures are adhered too
  • Working with cases in care proceedings
  • Undertaking risk assessments
  • Putting in place multi agency plans for children returning to their families
  • Devise multi agency child protection plans
  • Undertake direct work with children
  • Undertake Life story work with children to address emotional contact needs and to achieve permanency
  • Attending family group conferences
  • Keeping up to date case recordings
  • Report writing
  • Preparing reports and presenting them to panels
  • Undertaking Kinship assessments
  • Preparing Care Plans
  • Writing court reports and giving evidence in court
  • Meeting timescales in line with legislation
  • Carrying out core assessments
  • Planning and prioritising my case load
  • Completing statutory visits
  • Preparing pathway plans

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 Tom Loomes; 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.