Senior Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Stafford, United Kingdom Staffordshire County Council Full time

Job Introduction
As a Senior Practitioner in the Assessment and Staying Together team in Stafford, you will be key in supporting and coaching your fellow social workers. You will be a role model and encourage effective practice in the team and ensure that there is a focus upon quality and also on achieving positive and timely outcomes for children and families.

Main Responsibilities
As a Senior Practitioner in the Assessment and Staying together team, you will:

- Be a role model for your colleagues and lead by example in achieving a positive impact in the work we are doing with children and families and promoting a positive and resilient culture. -You will be able to offer peer support, supervision and mentoring, relevant to children supported in the team.
- Have skills in working effectively with other professionals and agencies to ensure children are safeguarded.
- Be able to navigate childcare proceedings, have skills in writing purposeful assessments which are key in making the right decisions for children in Court proceedings. You will be expected to have experience and skills in permanency care planning.
- Have a sound knowledge and understanding of the different permanency options and processes to achieve good outcomes for children.
- Have good awareness of the key legislations, policies, guidance linked to children requiring statutory intervention and care planning.
- Have skills in preventing and managing placement breakdowns, alternative provisions, the LADO process and where possible be ABE/MAIVIC trained.
- Be familiar with and understand key performance indicators and processes to measure and sustain effective practice.
- Work in partnership with your Team Manager to ensure the team understands the priorities set out by the District Lead and work towards achieving key service delivery objectives and a good standard of performance overall.

Overall, our Senior Practitioners need to be a:

- Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying experience
- Registered with Social Work England
- Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle

But above all, you will bring the desire to work with children and families to give them the right support, at the right time with the aim of keeping families together where it is safe to do so.

About Staffordshire County Council
**We are no ordinary county council**:
**Our Values**:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

**Our benefits**:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

**Our recruitment process**:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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