Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Bassett Street, South Wigston, Leicestershire LE18 4PE
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £42,498 - £46,344 plus market premia £2,250 per annum
Working Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 28th February 2025
Interview Date(s): 11th March 2025
Come and join us!
We have a vacancy for a Senior Practitioner in South Wigston Team C based at Bassett Street. If successful, you will support the Team Managers in ensuring that high-quality services are provided for local children and their families.
About the Role
The right support at the right time, working with the whole family network to promote positive attachments in a safe and stable family environment. Ensuring timely expert safeguarding and legal interventions where this is proportionate.
Family Safeguarding is the new specialist service for children and young people at risk or experiencing significant harm and therefore in need of safeguarding within Leicestershire. Building on the robust practice already in place, learning from the national reviews, positive OFSTED and judicial feedback, this service is evolving into a more specialist child protection and court work service.
Deploying our skilled and experienced workforce of team managers, agency and permanent senior practitioners and social workers, support and assessment workers, we will build on their high levels of skills and experience to focus on delivering excellent safeguarding and court-facing services. You will support the team manager with running POD meetings and other actions as they arise.
Family Safeguarding will offer support to children and families who are experiencing very high levels of need and risk, offering tailored and proportionate support to help children to have stable attachments and to live in safe and stable environments.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
About You
We want creative, experienced and supportive workers who will provide intensive and focused support to families in their homes. Developing effective relationships and using strengths-based and trauma-informed approaches will help to motivate and encourage behaviour change, leading to positive differences in children's lives.
To apply for this post, you must have:
* Degree in Social Work approved by the Social Work England (SWE) or equivalent social work qualification (e.g., Certificate of Qualification in Social Work or Diploma in Social Work) and must also be registered with Social Work England.
* Experienced level 3 social worker in a children's social work team.
* Experience of working in a range of settings including access/duty/intake, children in need, child protection, care proceedings, safeguarding, and looked-after children work.
* Experience of undertaking Section 47 enquiries.
* Experience of supervising social work students.
* Experience of using performance indicators to monitor and improve performance.
* Able to analyse information to reach sound decisions, often under pressure, and take responsibility for their outcome and regular reporting to the Team manager.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Jane Clamp, Service Manager
Email: jane.clamp@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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