Senior Social Work Practitioner

5 months ago

Keynsham, United Kingdom Bath & North East Somerset Council Full time

**Hours: 29.5 Per Week**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Service Area: Children Services & Education**

**Department: Administration Team**

If your passion is around collaborative work with families, centred on building relationships in order to help families develop resilience and make changes for their children, then we are the Local Authority for you. Even at the front door, through brief interactions with families who have been referred in, our aim is to promote therapeutic conversations to enhance families’ experiences of working with social care. Our practice model is underpinned by relationship-based, systemic approaches to facilitate change, alongside trauma informed practice.

Bath and North East Somerset Children’s Services are rated Good by OFSTED, with continued vision and drive to improve further.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for **a Senior Social Worker Practitioner **(with a Social Work qualification) to join our Triage Team, within the Safeguarding Outcomes Service. We are committed to being a dynamic and creative Local Authority, working hard to think differently about how we approach our work with families. We are deeply committed to providing tailored high-quality services and well thought out interventions to families to keep children safe. Our practice is values-driven with a strong ethos of child-focused interventions, therapeutic assessments and support.

About the role:
You will work in partnership with an enthusiastic team consisting of a Team Manager, Deputy Team Manager, Senior Practitioners, Social Workers, Referral & Information Officers, and administrative staff. This is a part time permanent post.

This challenging but rewarding role will see you responding to new referrals in to social care, establishing the level of risk, signposting on to Early Help or partnership agencies where appropriate, contacting families and professionals to discuss new referrals and respond to incidents, and processing referrals to be opened to social care where the criteria is met for a section 17 single assessment or strategy discussion. You will work closely with our colleagues across the service and will have established partnerships with agencies across health, education, police, support services and adult services to ensure we can respond as effectively as possible to the needs of children, young people, and their families. Within this role, you will also be responsible for chairing MASH meetings, and attending Domestic Abuse Triage Meetings.

The post holder will be responsible for overseeing all new referrals to the Triage team, alongside your managers. You will be able to evidence a strong ability to analyse information and make robust decisions for children and families, as well as demonstrating your capability to work constructively with partner agencies to support families. Applicants need to have very strong organisational skills to manage and prioritise their work effectively and in a timely way, and will be committed to working as part of a team to support colleagues in delivering optimum services to children and families.

As a senior practitioner, you will have an opportunity to develop your supervisory skills, for example being able to access Practice Educator Professional Standards (PEPS) training to support a student social worker, or taking on a mentoring role for newly qualified social workers on the ASYE programme from other teams.

You can expect:

- A comprehensive induction
- Regular supervision - at a minimum of monthly one to one
- Monthly Team Meetings.
- Monthly Peer Circles to ensure strong relationships and support between Senior Social Work Practitioners across the teams
- Extensive training opportunities, which include SARI workshops around culturally sensitive practice, opportunities to join a 6-month long training in Systemic Practice delivered by the Centre for Systemic Social Work, attachment based workshops, and trauma-informed workshops
- Excellent administrative support with admin staff supporting each team
- Tri-annual Social Work Conferences with guest speakers who are experts in the field. Examples of previous conferences have included Donald Forrester, Brid Featherstone, Rebecca Carr-Hopkins, ‘Annie’ from Surviving Safeguarding, and Dr Karen Treisman
- Paid Social Work England membership renewal
- Access to Research in Practice
- Relocation Payments are available
- A stable leadership team
- A stable and committed team, with very low rates of agency workers, and low vacancy rates
- A relevant social work qualification
- At least 2 years social work experience
- Knowledge of the legislative framework that governs children’s services
- Knowledge of theory and practice applicable to social work
- IT skills to enable operation of standard electronic systems.
- Passion, commitment, and motivation to support the most vulnerable families in our area
- Experience of working in children’s social care within a safeguarding team.
- Experience of

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