Social Work Senior Practitioner - Duty & Assessment Team

Location Maidenhead
Job type Contract
Salary £42 per hour
Consultant Jenni Regnault
Call +44 7361 588510
Reference 181541

Sanctuary Personnel have an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Senior Practitioner to join a well-established Children’s service based in Maidenhead.

Team/Specialism: Duty & Assessment

Pay Rate: £42 per hour (assignment rate)

Contract: Locum, 3-Months

Hours: Full-time

Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:

  • Fully online and paperless registration service
  • Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
  • Exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable) and extensive equipment provided.
  • Revalidation/registration renewal based on length of service
  • £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
  • Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
  • Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience recruiting to social work roles (public & private sector)
  • Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
  • Access to our online careers hub

Duties:

  • Manage priorities and work under pressure displaying initiative and creativity
  • Advocating the voices of those we are working with

Requirements of the Senior Practitioner:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current Social Work England registration
  • Experience in leading a team, undertaking line management, performance management and change management
  • Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their families
  • Proven ability to effectively use data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight and to inform own decision making
  • Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children or young people)
  • Knowledge of statutory legislation (for example Children’s Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children’s services and your role
  • Desire to influence, develop and change the motivation and behaviour of people to achieve objectives
  • Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them

Contact:

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Jenni Regnault; 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.