Senior Practitioner

Overview Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Child Protection Team to work full time based in Southend on Sea. The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to 47,363 per annum. Responsibilities To be responsible for complex cases and detailed assessments including, where appropriate, Child Protection Assessments. To assist the Manager, as required in aspects of the Team’s work including the allocation of work maintaining, developing, and encouraging high professional standards; and supporting the supervision and development of individual staff. Keep up to date with good practice guidance, current legislation, Government initiatives and local policies and procedures with a view to playing a lead role in disseminating these within the team. Provide consultation, advice, and guidance to Team Members on professional issues. Assist the Head of Service in developing and maintaining projects within agreed timetables. Represent the Manager or Head of Service at internal and external meetings where appropriate, and to act as Deputy to the Manager. Write complex reports and briefing papers on policy and operational issues for the Team Manager, Head of Service, Chief Officer of Children and Families and to participate in a range of meetings, case conferences or task forces, service, and project management groups. Assist in ensuring that team members fulfil expectations in relation to the Council’s statutory responsibilities, policies, and standards and that the practice is anti-discriminatory. To assist the Manager, when required, in the performance management for all staff. Assist, when required, in ensuring that the Council’s employee communication system (CASCADE) is fully implemented and maintained in order that all employees receive appropriate information, and that employee feedback is encouraged. Participate where appropriate in staff selection in accordance with equalities legislation good practice guidance and Council procedures. To actively participate in the overall management and development of the service through Team Meetings and Service wide meetings; attend and participate positively in Team and other meetings as required with a view to promoting the development of an integrated response to clients needs concentrating on the delivery of an efficient and effective service. Provide cover work for the other Senior Practitioners and Team Managers as required and arrange cover for other Team Members across the section and Children & Families where necessary. To participate in inter-agency working specifically with Education, the Health Authority, Housing, the Probation Service and other statutory/voluntary organisations. Provide management, consultation, professional support, advice and guidance to the immediate team and others across Children & Families. Any other duties appropriate to this area of work and consistent with the level of the post, as may from time to time are required. Requirements A social Work Qualification or equivalent. Understanding of relevant legislation. Social Work England registered. Contact:This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements. As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr