Senior Practitioner

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Adoption Support Team to work full time based in Bexley.
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The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £52,698 per annum.

**Main duties**:

- Oversee proportionate and holistic assessments, ensuring the strengths, capabilities and support available from the person’s wider network are maximised. Identify and advise on barriers to change and how needs impact on family members or others in a client’s support network.
- Lead and oversee the progression of complex and difficult social work cases within the parameters of agreed policies, procedures and framework for delivering Social Work, including timely intervention, resolution and case closure or transfer.
- Maintain clear and systematic oversight of social work cases within the team, promote social work best practice and disseminate policy or legislative updates. Provide professional advice, guidance and expertise e.g. via individual and group supervision, to staff in the team, other internal colleagues and professionals from agencies.
- Promote social work and contribute to a range of service related projects as they arise, including the development of new initiatives through representation on working/multi-agency groups.
- Be accountable for own performance and monitor the performance of a designated group of professional staff within the team taking appropriate action to maintain high practice standards. Enable continued development of professional skills and social work practice to meet service requirements, ensuring staff adhere to policies, procedures and capability frameworks.
- Support the Team Manager in the recruitment and induction of new staff and in managing the development of the team’s knowledge base and expertise as well as supporting the day-to-day management of the team to ensure services are delivered and meet the standards required.

**Requirements of this role**:

- Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
- Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
- Experience of community and/or group work.
- Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

**Contact**:
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

**Reasonable Adjustments**:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.