Senior Practitioner - Adults
Senior Practitioner - Adults
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Job Description
We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Camden to assist with the appointment of a Senior Practitioner on a 1month contract likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.
Rate of Pay: 24.25 31.99 per hour
Responsibilities:
- To manage the provision of a duty/intake service in the allocation monitoring and supervision of the work of a social work team using agreed workload management systems in order to ensure staff resources are deployed effectively and professional/performance standards are maintained.
- To manage motivate and develop staff identifying individual and collective training needs and setting training objectives in conjunction with learning and development colleagues to coordinate the overall development of the team.
- To ensure the maintenance of confidential and accurate records making use of management information systems in the recording retrieval and analysis of information as required by the department in order to ensure statutory and practice requirements are met.
- To provide professional supervision and support to senior practitioners and social workers to ensure the appropriate management of statutory work and development of high quality standards and practice
- To prepare reports statements and such other legal documents as may be required in relation to children and young persons attend court and represent the department to ensure legal and statutory requirements are met and carried out.
Qualifications:
- Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
- Diploma in social work or equivalent qualification.
- HCPC Registered.
- Substantial postqualifying experience of working with children and families in a multicultural innercity community.
- Ability to lead motivate staff and drive performance within a Team Management and Supervisory experience in social work.
- Analytical skills and budget skills. Strategic and project management experience. Experience of safeguarding care proceedings and court work.
- Demonstrable working knowledge of complex assessments of a childrens needs and/or risk.
- Experience of designingimplementing and monitoring care/protection plans.
- Experience of supervision of students or professional supervision of qualified staf including case consultation and case reviews.
Please note:
- You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
- You should have right to work in U.K
- This role requires an enhanced DBS
Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary though assignments can be and often are extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Employment Type
Full Time
