Job Title: Senior Practitioner, Family Safeguarding Location: Dudley Rate: £33.30 Job Purpose: Contribute to the delivery of an effective children's social care service as part of a social work team, improving outcomes for children and young people. Manage caseloads dependent upon experience, grade of post and complexity of cases, utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs assessments, care planning, and child protection investigations. Carry out high quality assessments, using child-centred, community focused, and multiagency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships, and to secure the best outcomes for children and young people. Ensure children and young people are adequately protected in line with Dudley LSCB, departmental policy and procedures, and relevant legislation. Connect2Dudley is a trading style of Dudley & Kent Commercial Services LTD - A joint venture between Dudley Metropolitan Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Dudley is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates