Senior Practitioner

7 days ago

Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Triumph Consultants Ltd Full time

What's involved with this role:

Interim Senior Practitioner - Childrens Social Care

Reference no:
Durham

Pay Rate:
£181.02 per day PAYE

Hours per week: 35-37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 10-11 months

City:
DURHAM

Enhanced DBS required for this role


Skilled and competent social worker, who has experience of child protection and court work and has an interest in developing innovative care plans.

Social workers in Children's Services work with our most vulnerable children, young people and families. Their expertise supports families, helps keep children safe and enables them both to thrive.

Key Responsibilities

  • Communicate clearly and sensitively, building effective relationships with children, young people and families and other professionals. Listen to their views and enable their full participation in assessment, planning, and review.
  • Build and maintain high quality and appropriate professional relationships with children, young people and families to enable positive change to take place. Support children, young people and families even they are angry, hostile and resistant to change. Manage tensions between parents, carers and family members, in ways that show persistence, determination and professional confidence.
  • Promote optimal child development and be alert to signs that may indicate that the child is not meeting key developmental milestones, has been harmed or is at risk of harm.
  • Identify the impact of adult mental ill health, substance misuse, domestic abuse, physical ill health and disability on family functioning, social circumstances and child development.
  • Carry out indepth and ongoing family assessment of social need and risk to children, with particular emphasis on parental capacity and capability to change. Ensure that the voice of the child is heard, and that families and partner agencies contribute in a meaningful way to the assessment.
  • Make realistic, child centred, plans within a review timeline, which will manage and reduce identified risks and meet the needs of the child. Ensure that children, young people and families, and partner agencies participate fully.
  • Produce well argued, focused, and jargon free case notes, plans and reports e.g. single assessments and court reports. Present a clear analysis and a sound rationale for actions and conclusions.
  • Evaluate and review the development and progress of children, young people and their families against the agreed plan, monitor their changing needs and evaluate impact.
  • Social workers working in Child Protection and Disability services, Families First and Looked After Services will also lead the investigation of allegations of significant harm to children in consultation with other professionals and practice supervisors.
  • Use the law, regulatory and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions. Make use of the best evidence from research to inform the complex judgements and decisions needed to support families and protect children

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Other "Essential Requirements" - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

Qualifications:

  • Degree in social work or equivalent social work qualification, e.g. Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (PDDipSW) Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW), Diploma in Social Work (DipSW), Certificate in Social Services (CSS)
  • Current Social Work England Registration

Knowledge:

  • Knowledge of a range of social work theories relevant to the role
  • Knowledge of the main social care services and resources provided by the statutory, voluntary and independent sector

Experience:

  • Experience of direct working with children and families.
  • Experience of evaluating, monitoring and developing the quality of childcare practice.

Skills & Abilities:

  • Ability to recognise own professional limitations and know how and when to seek advice
  • Antidiscriminatory and antioppressive practice and nonjudgemental stance
  • Able to work well under pressure
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