Sanctuary Social Care has a vacancy for a Senior Practitioner to work full-time based in Kingston, within the Referral and Assessment 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 Senior Practitioner role is £40,869 - £43,860 per annum and is on a permanent basis.
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
- Experience of support and development of peers within the team
- Team based experience that will include: support and mentoring of others using supervisory experience and supporting Students, ASYE and placement experience such as Practice Educator
- Experience in working with children and families that will include: confidence in undertaking child protective investigations, alongside safety and contingency planning
- Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions
- Proven ability to effectively use research, data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight
- Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders
- Knowledge of statutory legislation and national policy drivers that will affect children's services
- Experienced in undertaking child protection investigations and assessments of needs
- Experienced in managing an allocated caseload, planning and organising workload to meet
- Experienced in the use of ICT and case record management systems
- Strong organisational abilities including: time management, creative-thinking, problem-solving
- Able to manage priorities and work under pressure displaying initiative and creativity
- Excellent communication skills that are open, honest, persuasive and
- pragmatic, including ability to negotiate and influence
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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.
