Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an experienced Senior Practitioner to work within Fostering Team to work full time based in Southend.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £44,863 annum.
Main duties:
* To provide an efficient and cost-effective service to children, young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed.
* To provide consolation on casework and contribute to the development of colleagues within the team and where appropriate the wider service by virtue of being an experienced and reliable practitioner.
* To undertake responsibility for some area of work in the day to day running of the team and supervision of team members.
* To be familiar with Equal Opportunities good practice and the Council requirements for diversity and to implement this in all aspects of working practice and promote it in the team, workplace, and wider organisation.
* To investigate, evaluate and analyse information on cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliability of information, evidence, conclusions, and realistic action plans. Ensure adequate recording that evidence practice.
* To ensure that all case management complies with the statutory requirements and the Councils policies and procedures.
* To identify service enhancements and support the culture of continuous improvement.
* To prepare and submit written reports as and when required, including statements and care plans for care proceeding sin the Family Proceedings, County and High Courts.
* Where appropriate acting as the duty worker, responding to queries and issues on all cases currently being managed by the team.
* To supervise social workers as required and to deputise for the Team Manager in all or some of their functions as required in their absence.
* To ensure the Team Manager is kept fully apprised of problems arising from workload and seek advice as and when necessary.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:
* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Continual professional development.
* 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.
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