Senior Practitioner X 2; Children Looked After 0-16

2 months ago

Croydon, United Kingdom Croydon Council Full time

**Job title**:Senior Practitioner; Children Looked After 0-16

**Department**:Children’s Services

**Location**:Croydon Council (CR0)

**Grade / Salary**:Grade 15; £49,890 - £51,903 + £2,000 retention payment

**Hours of work**: 36 per week / Monday - Friday

**Contract type**:Permanent

**At Croydon Council, we have created Senior Practitioner roles for experienced social workers to remain in practice developing and sharing expertise - could this opportunity be the next move for you?**

**Job Purpose**

The Children Looked After service supports and inspires cared for children, and care experienced young people to become their best, and achieve their aspirations. We take our corporate parenting role very seriously and are committed to supporting our children to be heard, and to flourish. We provide social work support for children and young people aged 0-16. We aim to walk alongside them and enable their plans for permanency to be achieved. We know how important lifelong links are for our children looked after, and we work hard to enable these to be maintained.

The Senior Practitioner roles work with children with complex needs and support the Team Managers in providing leadership of practice. We work from a systemic framework and trauma informed perspective.

You will support staff across the teams to develop their practice and develop expertise. As a Senior Practitioner you will have expertise in:

- Engaging children and young people and relationship building
- Direct work across the age range
- Assessment and Care Planning / Pathway Planning
- Safeguarding for children in care including extra familial harm
- High standard of report writing and case recording
- Ability to analyse complex information and make child centred decisions.
- Chair multi-professional meetings and co-ordinate support
- Delivering to performance standards consistently across the measures within the journey of the child.

**Benefits of Working With Us**
- Highly competitive salary & retention payment of £2,000 giving up to £53,903pa
- A pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 20%
- 31 days annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays

Accredited Systemic Practice training

A range of CPD opportunities

Investment into your staff well-being

Good management support for practitioners, regular supervision, group supervision led by systemic therapists and access to a clinical therapist to support your work directly.
- The council promotes a hybrid working where the role allows and a high-quality office base where direct work is delivered from.

**Why Join Us**

In Croydon, our Children's Services has an established Systemic Practice model, experienced leaders, and high support for practitioners. Croydon people and staff are diverse, and we celebrate difference through focus on anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice. We are committed to delivering excellent social work practice and services to our children and families.

As well as this we also offer the following:

- Our teams consist of experienced Social Workers at various levels
- Join a highly diverse workforce
- Reflective supervision is actively promoted and supported.
- The ethos at Croydon is very much about working together to make positive change
- Caseloads of Social Workers are manageable enabling managers to know children well & ensure high standards of practice
- You will join an established team who can help you settle in and offer their expertise

**About You**

We are looking for experienced Senior Practitioners, who also have:

- Qualified Social Worker and up to date registered with Social Work England
- Foundation level systemic practice qualification - desirable
- Practice Educator or Practice Teacher qualification - desirable
- Knowledge of national policy, strategy and developments regarding children’s social care, and areas that impact on children’s social care.
- Significant experience working with children in care and those who arrived unaccompanied in the UK.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, standards and procedures.
- Knowledge of relevant theoretical frameworks, practice models and research findings.
- Knowledge of models of reflective supervision that impact on practice and outcomes.
- Able to maintain records that evidence our engagement with children and families, informs the quality assurance framework e.g., quantitative, qualitative and outcome information for the children and families, the views and experiences of children and families

Full time 36 hours per week

Recruitment and Selection Timeline

Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on a fortnightly basis.

**Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Statement**

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.

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