Sanctuary Social Care is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Senior Practitioner to work full-time in Children's Safeguarding Team in Burton-on-Trent. 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 job is £32.34 per hour (LTD Company Equivalent) and is a 3-month contract.
About the job:
Here are some of the duties that you could have:
Carrying out Core Assessments, pre-birth assessments, risk assessments
Carrying out Section 47 Child protection investigations
Writing Statements for court
Completing Section 7 and 37 reports for court
Representing the authority in court to give evidence
Carrying out home visits for monitoring purposes and to safeguard children
Keeping up to date case recordings
Convening and chairing core group meetings
Liaising with other professionals
Carrying out joint investigations and interviews with the police
Initiating and seeing through care proceedings
Implementing and reviewing Care Plans
Supervising contact
Writing case conference reports
Attending case conferences and strategy meetings
Completing Child in Need plans
Requirements of the Senior Practitioner:
Degree or equivalent in social work
Current HCPC registration
Significant senior level frontline experience within children's services
Must have experience of working in a senior practitioner role on a busy safeguarding children team
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Kaselle Lee; 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.
