SENIOR PRACTITIONER
Location: South East
Pay rate: £43,421-£49,498 per Annum
We are looking for experienced and passionate Qualified Social Workers to join the children’s fostering service. This is an exciting opportunity to join our client's social work fostering support team in the southeast. You will be supported by an experienced team manager. Our client has a strong and positive culture in this South East local authority, which we would love you to be a part of. This Local Authority does offer regular monthly supervision and monthly group reflective supervision.
As part of this South East dedicated Fostering Team, you will be working in a busy and supportive team who assess and work with children and families and intervene where children need support to provide more children with help at an earlier stage. Fostering work directly with children and their families whilst also partnering with agencies including the police and health to ensure the best possible outcome with sustainable positive change. The service ensures a strong link with our Integrated Prevention and Earliest Help colleagues to promote local community support for children and families when social care no longer needs to be involved.
Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person-centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you’ll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant Social Work experience and excellent communication skills you’ll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.
You’ll be committed to ensuring positive and sustainable results from your interventions. Using best practice, you’ll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly, however, you’ll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.
Perfect candidate will be:
1. Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
2. Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups.
3. Experience working within Court, Children in Need, and Child Protection.
4. Supporting children and families subject to CIN and Child Protection planning, pre-proceedings, and court proceedings.
5. Understanding factors that impact children including abuse and neglect.
6. Undertaking Child & Family Assessments demonstrating effective analysis, decision making, planning, and review.
7. Undertaking effective direct work with children and families.
8. Creative, flexible, and forward-thinking in approach.
9. Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
10. Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
11. Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
12. Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
13. Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service.
14. Experienced in working on a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis.
15. MUST HAVE 2 YEARS POST QUALIFIED EXP IN FOSTERING.
In this role you will:
1. Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessments of risks, protection, and social care needs.
2. Manage an agreed case load.
3. Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
4. Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Surrey, Crawley, Slough, Croydon, Bromley, Orpington, Epsom, Twickenham, Leatherhead, Guildford, London, Cambridge, Northampton, Southend-on-Sea, Dartford, Reading, Rochford, Colchester, Ipswich, Watford, Broadstairs, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Worthing, Portsmouth, and Crawley.
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