Senior Practitioner

**Contract Type**: Fixed term Contract (until 31st May 2025)

**Contract Reason**: Maternity cover

**Salary**:Grade I. Scale 35 - £43,421 to Scale 37 - £45,441

**Hours Per Week**:36

**Base Location**:Greenside Children’s Centre, Greenside Lane, Droylsden, M43 7RA

**Assessment Date**: To be arranged

**The Role**

The Early Help Team are looking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated, social work qualified Senior Practitioner to support the leadership and management of the Early Help Adviser Team in Tameside.

As Early Help Senior Practitioner you will provide robust initial and final management oversight to Early Help referrals received in the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and via the Team Around the Setting (TAS). In this role you will be expected to make decisions based on the Tameside threshold of need document. You will provide management oversight and case direction to the Early Help Advisers as well as the allocation of cases. As part of the role it is vital to support the decision making in regards to referrals to Early Help and ensuring the best outcomes for children, young people and families.

As Early Help Senior Practitioner you will be expected to professionally challenge where required to ensure that children, young people and families receive the right level of support at the right time.

As Early Help Senior Practitioner you will be responsible for the supervision of Early Help Advisers. You will be expected to allocate and manage the caseloads of the Early Help Advisers ensuring that timescales and key performance indicators in place are adhered to. You will be required to quality assure and finalise the Early Help Advisers decision making in line with the threshold of need document.

You will be responsible for identifying themes, completing audits and collecting data to support the development of the service and identify training needs for Early Help Advisers and other professionals.

You will work closely with partner agencies such as schools, health, children's social care, police, voluntary sector etc. It is important that you are able to communicate effectively with a range of professionals and be able to manage competing priorities.

As Early Help Senior Practitioner you will work closely with Targeted Family Help and support the step up/step down processes in place. Ensuring that the right service is in place for the family and the needs identified.

You will work as part of a wider Early Help team and support the continued development of the services.

**About You**
- Social Worker Qualification
- Social Work England Registration
- Substantial previous experience (including Children’s)
- Previous management experience

**About Us**

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

**Reference Number: DPT379