Senior Practitioner – Assessment Team

Location: Hereford

Reference: OR4053

Supply Care Solutions are a market-leading Medical, Social Care and Education recruitment consultancy, we offer a range of accredited services across the public sector, providing highly skilled, compliant professionals in all grades and specialties, including short, long term and permanent positions.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours

Salary: 08HC £33,945 – £38,223 (plus market supplement of £5,000 per year £38,945 – £43,223)

Relocation package of up to £10,000 available!!

Job profile:

Assessment teams complete holistic child-centered assessments, incorporating the childs identity, ethnicity, gender and culture. This is done by triangulation of information gained from: visiting and speaking with the child to build meaningful relationship throughout the process, consulting with parents/carers, including non-resident parents, step-parents, family members and other professionals who know the child well to inform an outcome focused SMART plan or next steps.

As a Senior Practitioner, you have the opportunity to help us with the ongoing development of our staff in their knowledge, experience and practice. You will closely work with the managers to develop the team and deliver high quality service to our children, young people, foster carers, connected carers and special guardians.

You will provide coaching, mentoring, training and support to apprentices, step up students and traditional students. Leading on areas of practice development and training within the wider service, you will support with the implementation of our practice standards, quality assurance framework, professional values, policies and procedures.

Duties:

• Promote purposeful social work practice and undertake regular clinical and case work supervision that is reflective and outlines clearly the next steps to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.
• Manage effective communication of practice, service and organisational issues within the team and work collaboratively across other social work teams, services and with partners to provide high-level integrated support to children and families
• Ensure that in all aspects of work that the views, feelings and wishes of children, young people and their parents /carers are taken seriously and used to appropriately inform their assessment, plans and development and performance of services.
• To contribute to the professional development of team members; by undertaking particular responsibilities with regard to less experienced staff by advising other staff on particular areas of case management by co-working cases to support development supporting chairing of meeting attendance at court, when necessary by providing quality assurance of assessments, plans and statements
• Provide role modelling, coaching and mentoring to contribute to the following outcomes:
• Contribute to operational development of the service that supports the whole system approach – to integrated practice
• Promote the voice of the child and  ensure all children and young peoples plans are robust, SMART and are in a language that the children and their families will understand; 
• Ensure recording practices are safe and secure and routinely monitored;
• Ensure that planning of service and team development takes account of assessed need and results of regulatory inspections, where relevant;
• Contribute to the induction of all new staff in consultation with managers and the workforce support officer.

Staff Benefits:

• A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:
• Basic Salary of £33,945 – £38,223 (plus market supplement of £5,000 per year £38,945 – £43,223)
• Market rate supplement £5,000 per year
• Welcome payment £5,000 for experienced social workers joining our children’s teams
• Relocation packages: support of up to £10,000
• Flexible working: flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
• Pension Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
• Professional development: protected time and budget to support social workers develop themselves and their careers.
• Career progression: clear pathways to progress to senior social worker level
• Generous Annual Leave: 31 days’ annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling
• Payment of professional membership fees
• Pick your perks – our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

To apply, please send the following below:

Compliance documents required :

Updated CV  (NO GAPS) & Social Work England Number

National Insurance Number & Date of Birth

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