Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Emergency Duty Team to work full time based in Oxfordshire.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £49,964 per annum.
Main duties:
To ensure continuity/consistency in delivery of service by supervising staff as delegated by the practice manager.
To assist Practice and Team Manager by contributing to the planning and development of the service and to assist the management of the workflow.
Undertake effective assessment of need, analysis, and management of risk for allocated children.
Conduct statutory work with children who are subject to Child in Need plans, Child Protection Plans or children who are Looked After up to the point that permanency plans are put in place.
Carry out statutory visits, monitor and assess children’s safety and welfare and act promptly on any concerns.
Take responsibility for cases until they are closed or referred to another service. Including the escalation of cases to appropriate statutory and specialist teams such as Youth Offending Service, Looked After Children/Learning Care and the de-escalation of statutory cases to workers in the Family Support Service or universal services.
Develop and maintain effective relationships with children and young people, their families and carers: providing advice and support and helping resolve conflict, where appropriate.
Help children and young people, families, carers and communities to make informed choices and decisions, enabling them to clarify and express their needs and contribute to service planning,
Maintain accurate and up to date case management records and produce concise, comprehensive and timely assessment and reports.
Prepare and manage cases for court, including liaison with children’s guardians and other legal representatives.
Work with colleagues, other agencies and community resources to ensure that families are offered support in their localities wherever possible.
Represent the service in multi-agency forums and locality working.
Participate in learning opportunities and developments in social work practice.
Contribute to the facilitation of evidence-based group programmes across the locality.
Supervision of students and contribution to the induction of newly qualified social workers or support staff.
Assist in the writing of reports for less experienced staff and support at meetings and within the court arena.
Representing Team and Practice Manager at strategic meetings.
Requirements of this Senior Practitionerrole:
A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
Understanding of relevant legislation.
Registered or eligible for registration.
Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.
