Family Support and Safeguarding Lead
7 days ago
About Our Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Practitioner to join our team at Achieving for Children. As a Senior Practitioner, you will play a key role in supporting children and young people who are subject to Child Protection plans and Child in Need plans.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Building strong and respectful working relationships with families, their support network, and our partner agencies.
- Working on cases with increased complexity, including Care Proceedings.
- Contribute to team management, deputising for the team leaders and potentially supervising work of an ASYE or students.
- Ensuring that children and young people are actively involved in our work and their voice is captured in our case recording.
- Actively taking part in reflective supervision and group supervision.
About You
- An effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
- A resilient worker, able to work effectively in a team or on your own, taking ownership and responsibility for the cases you are assigned.
- Confident and competent with relevant statutory and regulatory framework and have knowledge of an appropriate range of professional interventions.
- Evidence of championing inclusion and diversity whilst making a positive difference to the lives of children and young people.
- A solution-focused person with the ability to deal with sensitive issues.
About Our Benefits
- A competitive salary and the technology and equipment to enable hybrid working.
- Access to a wide range of resources, including a welcome payment and retention bonus for selected roles.
- Free parking at your main place of work.
- 29 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days after 2 years and 35 days after four years with bank holidays in addition.
- Local government salary and pension scheme (LGPS or Teachers Pension).
- Hybrid working, enabling you to work from home, office, or the community, with access to the technology and equipment to support you.
- Travel assistance package for business use, including car and cycle mileage reimbursement, annual season ticket loan, or business Oyster cards.
- A minimum of 12 protected Development Days each year for all staff.
- Support and recognition from a stable senior leadership team with an open door culture.
- Managers who recognise complexity of cases and load, value hard work, provide reassurance, build confidence, and facilitate career development and progression opportunities.
- A huge range of additional professional development opportunities as part of our regional Social Work Teaching Partnership.
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