Senior Practitioner - Kinship Assessment. Job in Luton Education & Training Jobs

The Senior Practitioner - Kinship Assessment will support the Team Manager to provide high quality social work practice to vulnerable/at risk children and families and ensure effective practice management.

Responsibilities:

• Carry a caseload of complex cases requiring a high level of professional skill, providing assessment, care management and other social work services relevant to the needs of the most vulnerable/at risk children and families.
• Require and maintain unallocated cases.
• Under the direction of the Team Manager, use professional skills and experience to provide practice management to team members to ensure compliance with national and departmental policies, procedures and quality standards.
• Undertake research, training and development activities as required for the department and for the post holder's own professional development.
• As and when agreed by the Team Manager, undertake the role of practice teacher for students undergoing professional training who are on placement in the Department.

Skills and Experience:

• Substantial post qualifying experience including some in-depth experience in the field of child and family social work.
• Some experience of coaching/mentoring including practice teaching.
• Ability to demonstrate high level of competence in the practice of child and family social work.
• Excellent organisational, time management and administrative skills.
• Ability to make and act upon sound professional judgements.
• Ability to work to complex and conflicting demands.

DBS:

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for Disclosure and Barring Service checks to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application you disclose whether you have any convictions, bind overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders 1974 (Amendments) Order 1986. Therefore, applications are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are 'spent' under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority. The fact that a bind‑over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

Equal Opportunities:

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.