Senior Practitioner

22 hours ago

Cannock, United Kingdom Staffordshire County Council Full time

Job Introduction
**Life-changing work.**
**Game changing support.**

As a Senior Practitioner at Staffordshire, you’ll be key in the support and coaching you’ll help us to provide to our Social Workers. You’ll encourage and ensure that there’s a focus upon quality of practice but also on achieving positive outcomes for children and families.

It’s a great time to join us as a Senior practitioner as following our transformation, we have opportunities available with us across Staffordshire:
Main Responsibilities
As a Senior Practitioner in the Assessment & Staying Together teams you’ll:

- Manage a complex allocation of children
- Share in day-to-day care management tasks with the team manager, promoting a restorative approach to working with children and families, making decisions and providing advice and guidance to social workers with regard to child in need, Child Protection and Child in Care and Care Proceedings, in consultation with the manager, and chairing of strategy meetings, complex Child in Need and Core Group meetings.
- Coordinate and facilitate team group supervision
- Promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies.
- Ensure the teamwork towards achieving key service delivery objectives to ensure satisfactory team performance against key performance indicators.
- Mentor Social Work colleagues through assistance with complex cases including Care Proceedings work to support the professional development of newly qualified social workers
- Be responsible for the provision of practice placements for students and support social workers undertaking the practice assessment and workload management of social work students in the team
- Provide professional supervision to unqualified staff (including students and sessional workers) including identifying training needs.
- Lead on or contribute to projects as directed by the team manager.

More generally, overall, our Senior Practitioners need to be a:

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

But above all, you’ll 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’s 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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