Sanctuary Social Care has locum vacancy for a Senior Practitioner to work full-time based in Gloucester, within the Intensive Recovery Intervention Service Team. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in children's services and be registered with the HCPC.
The pay rate for this locum Senior Practitioner role is £35.00 per hour (LTD Company Equivalent) and is a 3-month contract.
Duties of the Senior Practitioner:
- Manage a caseload with a high level of complexity and risk including those children subject to care proceedings and child protection plans.
- Act in a consultative role to less experienced social workers to ensure reflective practice in all single or multi-agency assessments, including the development of outcome focussed plans. This will include supporting less experienced staff with court proceedings, chairing core group and multi-agency meetings, and facilitating family group meetings
- Responsible for modelling a high standard of practice in relation to own casework, including good quality case recording and report writing
- Provide mentoring and specialist consultation or advice to colleagues and other professionals
- To undertake direct work with children, young people and families in order to manage risk and achieve the sustained and positive outcomes identified in assessments and plans
- Attend relevant meetings which require high level professional input
- Maintain and facilitate professional working relationships with all stake holders to ensure the effective delivery of services
- Support advanced practitioners to improve social work practice
- To undertake training and development as required including on-going post qualification professional development.
- Be accountable for own practice ensuring it is of high quality and reflect bests practice.
- Support, promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people
Requirements of the Senior Practitioner:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current HCPC registration
- Significant senior level frontline experience within children's services
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Lauren Minter; 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.
