Childrens Senior Practitioner

4 weeks ago

Gateshead, United Kingdom Triumph Consultants Ltd Full time

**What's involved with this role**:
**Interim Children’s Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding, Care & Planning**

**Reference no: Gateshead 5877014916458**

**Pay rate: £181.02 per day PAYE**

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

**This opening assignment is for 1-2 months**

**City: GATESHEAD, Tyne & Wear**

**Enhanced DBS required for this role**

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 in-depth 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.

**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**:
**Qualifications**:

- Social Work England registered.
- 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).

**Experience**:

- Experience of building effective relationships with children, young people and families.
- Experience of producing focused and jargon free written case notes and reports, supported by clear analysis and a sound rationale for actions.
- Experience of working effectively with professionals from a diverse range of organisations.
- Experience of using policies and procedures in social work practice and IT to support effective working.
- Application of legislation and national standards relevant to the role.

**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.
- Recognise harm and the risk indicators of different forms of harm to children.

**Skills & Abilities**:

- Ability to use initiative to organise own workload.
- Able to work well under pressure.
- Ability to empower children, young people and their families in make long term positive changes for their future.
- Ability to recognise own professional limitations and know how and when to seek advice
- Ability to work flexible hours.

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.

SC **Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please

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