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Job Description
Senior Practitioner: Safeguarding
Be at the heart of practice development
Walsall is implementing the Families First Programme, based on the National Children's Social Care Review and Stable Homes Built on Love. Within Corporate parenting, we are transforming our approach to ensure dynamic support for children and young people in our care as we implement the valuing care approach.
About the job
As senior practitioner, you are at the heart of practice development offering mentoring, coaching, support, and practice expertise to your team. This role allows you to inspire others within their careers and practice with families.
We are looking for a motivated and experienced social worker to join our corporate parenting teams.
Our Offer
To provide the right conditions for you, we are committed to manageable workloads, high support from managers, essential paperwork only, enabling technologies, and all social workers will receive training in Systemic Family Practice.
Wellbeing is at the heart of our work. We offer specialised clinical supervision, a 9-day fortnight to support work/life balance, flexible working, and specialist employee assistance and therapeutic support when it is needed. We know we need to make social work a career people want to stay in.
In this role, you will be supported to identify your specialisms and areas of interest and access training to develop your expertise in these areas. This forms a part of our ongoing commitment to your development, with opportunities to progress into Senior Practitioner, Consultant Social Worker, and Lead Child Protection Practitioner roles.
We are committed to anti-discrimination and equality and to developing a workforce that reflects the communities we service.
Salary Scale: £46,464 - £51,515 (+10% Retention Payments after 2 years, increasing at 4 and 6 years)
Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care, and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.
Important note: When completing your online application form, you will be asked to enter supporting information. You must enter a detailed supporting information statement describing how your skills, abilities, and experience meet the specific criteria included in the employee specification. If you do not include a supporting information statement, you will not be shortlisted.
About Us
Here at Walsall, we want to attract the best talent. That's why - as well as a satisfying and rewarding job - we offer a range of attractive benefits. Working arrangements in most jobs are flexible (you may work flexitime, full or part-time, and job sharing is usually available) and you can expect generous holiday entitlements, a first-class pension scheme, and plenty of opportunities for training and personal development.
We advertise vacancies because we want the best talent available. If that's you, we're waiting for your application.
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