Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Parenting Assessor/Senior Practitioner to join a well-established Children’s service based in Croydon.
Team/Specialism: Case Progression
Pay Rate: £40.50 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time. 36 hours per week. You may, from time to time, be required to work outside of regular office hours including weekends and evenings to attend meetings and community events.
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
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- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
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- Professional Development: Working as a locum in Social Work provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties:
- Delivering high quality social work practice with children and families allocated to them and the management of their caseload
- Making recommendations to managers which have cost implications, some of which can be significant e.g., placement costs, external assessments etc
- Undertaking evidence-based assessment work and use sound professional judgments, recommendations and plans in situations of need, risk, and permanence planning
- Making professional decisions that impact on the safety and well-being of children and young people
- Supporting others in making decisions that ensure compliance with statutory requirements and Croydon practice standards in respect of the protection and well- being of children in need and children looked after
- Continually develop at team and organisational level models of social work practice consistent with the introduction and development of relevant theoretical frameworks including Systemic Practice
- Providing structured and ad hoc reflective supervision for newly qualified social workers and other practitioners, providing a source of experience, advice, modelling of good practice, coaching and support to others as agreed for their individual role
- Deputising for the Team Manager in their absence
- Developing and model the use of evidence-based methods of direct work with children and families
- Collaborating closely with partner agencies to achieve good practice and good decision making for children and their families
- Supporting senior managers in embedding a performance framework and use of data
- Act in a way that protects the reputation of the Local Authority and the social work profession, whilst always privileging the best interests of children
Requirements of the Parenting Assessor/Senior Practitioner:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Foundation level systemic practice qualification - desirable
- Practice Educator or Practice Teacher qualification – desirable
- Knowledge of national policy, strategy and developments regarding children’s social care, and areas that impact on children’s social care
- Knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, standards and procedures
- Knowledge of relevant theoretical frameworks, practice models and research findings
- Knowledge of models of reflective supervision that impact on practice and outcomes
- Able to maintain records that evidence our engagement with children and families, informs the quality assurance framework e.g., quantitative, qualitative and outcome information for the children and families, the views and experiences of children and families
- Able to contribute to quality assurance exercises and activity as part of the service’s quality assurance framework
- Able to hold accountability for practice with children and families and its impact on the lives of Croydon’s children
- Able to demonstrate professional and personal integrity and resilience through a problem-solving and constructive approach
- Able to use and apply data and management information to achieve continuous service improvement
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to build influential and productive relationships within the service and with partners
- Able to be analytical, view complex issues with clarity and make management decisions that are objective, impartial and evidence based
- Able to support, manage and motivate staff through difficult and sensitive issues
- Able to work autonomously and be able to make evidenced- based decisions which effectively manage risks to children
- Computer literacy skills necessary to work with information management systems and produce good quality data in a variety of formats
- Significant evidence of post qualifying experience in statutory social work settings
- Significant experience of practice with complex families where risks are high
- Experience of complex practice within the family proceedings court
- Experience of successfully promoting and developing evidence based childcare social work practice into high performing practice
- Experience of developing social work practitioners in an area relevant to this service area and role, which results in continuing practice improvement and the delivery of high-quality performance and good outcomes for children
- Willing to undertake an enhanced DBS check
Contact:
This Parenting Assessor/Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Michael Bowen; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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.
