Senior Practitioner Children with Disabilities Team 0-18

20 hours ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Peterborough City Council Full time

**Job Summary**:
Contract Type:
Permanent

Working Hours:
Full time

Advert Start Date:
10/01/2025

Advert End Date:
09/02/2025 23:59

Employment Location:
Sand Martin House, Peterborough

**Salary**:
£45,718 - £49,794

Vacancy ID:
106399

Closing date:
9 Feb

**Further Information**:
Our Children with Disabilities Team is recruiting a Senior Practitioner for our growing and developing service. We are seeking a Senior Practitioner who is eager to progress and be part of a service that is dedicated to providing the best outcomes for Children with Disabilities and their families within the diverse area of Peterborough.

This is an opportunity for you to be part of a dynamic team who supports families from the first point of contact, all the way through to adulthood, Referrals and Assessments, Children in Need, Looked after Children and Child protection and cases in the court arena. Our team regularly undertake safeguarding enquiries and court work. Our team also supports a number of children who are Looked After. We work very closely with our partner agencies in education and health services.

Employee wellbeing, development and supervision are prioritised within our service. Our team works within a hybrid model that enables working from home as well as being based at Sand Martin House, Peterborough.

Does this sound like somewhere you could flourish? Read on to see if you are a match.

Do you believe in the power of the Family Safeguarding approach; with multi-disciplinary teams and positive results, delivered through significantly better outcomes for some of the most vulnerable and at-risk children.

Do you thrive in diverse, supportive teams and want to feel empowered to make important decisions, flexing your creative muscle to solve challenging situations with innovative solutions.

Do you want easy access to complementary teams and services, ideally co-located in the same building, to make collaborative work much easier — at Peterborough the Housing, all Children’s Team, Adult Social Care, Commissioning, Legal and other teams are all easily accessed within a purpose-built office, which benefits from large river and green space views and a city center location that is also close to main road and rail transport links.

Our employee benefits

We value our colleagues and have developed a number of benefits in addition to our generous annual leave starting at 25 days + bank holidays, sick pay and local government pension scheme
- Access to a range of benefits via Vivup, including in-store and online discounts as well as our Cycle to Work and Home & Electronics scheme
- Buy up to 10 days additional annual leave (pro-rata)
- Access to car lease scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared Cost AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities including apprenticeships to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to our equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to receive Employee Recognition Awards

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