Senior Practitioner Assessment Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner Assessment Team  to work full time based in Cambridgeshire

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner  job is up to £ 45,987

Main Duties:

• To provide professional leadership in situations which have highly complex case arrangements for assessment and support planning, which involve risk, complexity and safety of children, young people, and families
• To deputise for the Team Manager when required and as agreed by the Service Manager, including responsibility for all key duties of the Team Manager in their absence
• To undertake timely assessments in accordance with statutory, regulatory, and operational standards, policy, and procedures for the service with a high degree of efficiency
• To plan, implement and review services, actions and processes for children and young people with statutory, regulatory, and operational standards, policy and procedures for the service
• To chair and attend relevant childcare meetings to ensure that the outcomes identified at assessment are met through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes
• To provide written and verbal reports for a variety of settings, including at Court, that are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence
• To lead, guide, and direct team members, to ensure work plans are in place and accountability taken by each team member for the cases held
• To manage the planning, allocation, and review of workload for direct reports so priorities are managed, shortfalls identified and services delivered within capacity and within departmental and partnership policies, procedures and timescales
• To develop effective partnership working with colleagues in related teams and partner agencies including community services both in terms of providing effective responses to the needs of children and young people and the development of an integrated service

Requirements of this job:

• Social Work Degree or equivalent (DipSW, CQSW, CSS)
• Social Work England (SWE) Registration
• Knowledge of UK legislation relevant to children and families
• Experience of working with children, young people, and their families

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from social worker, senior social worker, advanced practitioner, senior practitioner, deputy team manager, team manager, service manager, head of service and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews.

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