Senior Practitioner - Social Work Academy Team

Location Luton
Job type Permanent
Salary £40,221 - 43,421 per year
Consultant Alex Moon
Call 07458161360
Reference 213159

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Social Work Academy Team to work full time based in Luton.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £43,421 per annum.

Main duties:

  • Provide reflective supervision to explore the NQSW’s practice and factors influencing their practice responses (including emotions, assumptions, power relations and the wider social context).
  • Develop a shared understanding of the knowledge base informing their analysis and the limitations of their thinking, and use this understanding to inform next steps.
  • For new staters reflective supervision will be provided weekly for the first six weeks and fortnightly unto the NQSW’s six month review and a minimum of bi-monthly thereafter.
  • Promote resilience and empower NQSW’s to advocate for them selves and the children and families they work with. This includes professional challenge with managers and colleagues.
  • Co-work complex cases and use advanced professional knowledge, skills, experience and initiative to support the NQSW’s to develop assessment skills to identify and analyse risk to children and develop safety and supportive plans.
  • Co-work cases in crisis with the NQSW’s directing the social workers and influencing decision making on the case. Support NQSW’s practice development towards excellence.
  • Support and mentor the practice development of our NQSWs by reading through work before is it submitted to the Team Manager for authorizing and informally quality assuring their case files against ‘what good looks like’.
  • Attend all case work supervision with your NQSW’s. Write a case note following case supervision breaking down tasks and ensuring the NQSW understands all decisions made. Review these decisions two weeks after case supervision.
  • Support the NQSWs to gather and analyse sensitive and confidential information on families and record on LCS, collating key information relating to children’s safeguarding and protection.
  • To support the NQSWs to maintain accurate and up to date records in accordance with the Data Protection Act and GDPR.
  • Within the first six weeks provide bespoke induction to all NQSWs. As part of NQSWs induction, support and provide feedback to NQSWs in carrying out home visits attending meetings liaising closely with partner agency representatives and working within multi agency settings.
  • Contribute to the NQSW assessment reviews as three, six and twelve months of their assessed year of employment.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner role:

  • A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • Substantial experience in health or social care.

Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.