Senior Practitioner, West MidlandsPay rate, £33.30 per hourVitalis Social Care are recruiting for an experienced and qualified Children’s Social Worker to join a CWD team in the West Midlands.Job Role and Responsibilities: -
1. To provide a lead role in improving the quality of professional social work practice across the breadth of the case work cycle to children, young people and their families.
2. To provide a needs-led, professional social work service to children, young people and their families, complying with legislative requirements and in accordance with established best practice.
3. To be responsible for allocated cases including a complex caseload.
4. To provide technical/professional expertise to less experienced social workers.
5. To share/communicate a thorough working knowledge of relevant legislation, national standards, guidance, research, departmental policy and procedures.
6. To provide quality assurance and coaching/mentoring to work colleagues.
7. To take a ‘joined-up’ approach to ensuring the effectiveness of case working, actively promoting/encouraging effective partnership working with service users and other teams/agencies/organisations.
8. Participates in the regular collection, collation and reporting of appropriate performance management information in acco...