The Senior Practitioner will provide advanced social work practice within the Families First; Family Help Service, holding a caseload comprising the most complex children and families requiring statutory intervention. The post holder will provide professional leadership, expert safeguarding advice and practice oversight, ensuring high-quality assessments, planning and interventions that improve outcomes for children.
Working within the Families First model, the Senior Practitioner will lead on identification of step-up an step down cases with Child in Need, Child Protection, Public Law Outline (PLO), care proceedings and permanence planning. They will champion Signs of Safety, Trauma-Informed Practice and Motivational Interviewing, providing mentoring, coaching, pod supervision and reflective support to practitioners while promoting evidence-informed, relationship-based practice.
The Senior Practitioner will support the Team Manager in quality assurance, service improvement, workforce development, pod supervision and complex decision-making, exercising a high level of professional autonomy while ensuring statutory responsibilities and safeguarding duties are fulfilled.
You will have a proficient ability to communicate in English and be able to influence others in an effort to help coordinate services and supports in the best way possible to keep children as safe and well cared for as possible.
For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.
Please upload your personal statement under the Relevant Experience and Skills section and ensure this fully aligns to the role criteria. This should not be more than two sides of A4.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)