Senior Practitioner

About the Role at Compass Fostering:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Advanced Social Work Practitioner to join our dedicated team. As an Advanced Practitioner, you will play a vital role in delivering a high-quality, comprehensive service to our parents and children.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing a flexible and high-quality service to our parents and children, using legal, regulatory, and statutory guidance to inform practice decisions.
• Managing a reduced caseload and providing line management, professional supervision, and performance appraisals for a small number of social care staff/students.
• Supporting the organisation in ensuring that our service is run in line with Compass Parent & Child Policy and legislation, regulations, and standards.
• Working with the Operations Manager to support complex cases, practice development, and responding to safeguarding issues.
• Leading on identified projects and service developments.
• Having a relevant professional qualification in social work, being Social Care England (or equivalent) registered, and having substantial experience of residential practice, including assessments.
• Having a good knowledge of parent and child regulations, child care law, and safeguarding issues, as well as the ability to make objective professional assessments of parents and children.
• Being a strong team player and demonstrating excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits of Joining Compass Fostering:

• We offer career development opportunities, recognising hard work and supporting you into senior roles.
• A competitive salary using structured pay grades based on your training and experience.
• A car allowance to allow you to work flexibly from different locations.
• Access to therapeutic wellbeing sessions with our Therapeutic Services team.
• Cashback for various medical appointments and treatments, including optical and dental with MediCash.
• The opportunity to win up to £150 per month in our REACH awards.
• Service awards, including £200 (2 years), £400 (5 years), and £600 (10 years) for outstanding practice.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 28 days within 4 years, plus all bank holidays.
• Additional days off for your birthday, a health and wellbeing day, and a half-day festive shopping day.
• A Life Assurance Scheme, with named beneficiaries qualifying for 3x annual salary after successful completion of probationary.
• Salary sacrifice schemes, including childcare vouchers, technology, and cycle to work.

Our recruitment process aims to create and maintain a safe workforce, with robust vetting procedures. The successful applicant will be offered a role subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.

Compass Fostering is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We know that a diverse team is essential to supporting our children and young people.