Senior Social Work Practitioner (Children\'s Services) (Grade 9)

Overview

Job Category: Admin & Clerical
Job location: High Street, Blaina, Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, NP13 3BN, United Kingdom
Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council
Hours per week: 37
Start date: Immediate start
Salary: £31.71 per hour

Responsibilities

• This is a rewarding and fast-paced role where no two days are the same. You’ll lead on the delivery of high-quality assessments, with the Statutory Assessment Team focusing on Section 47 enquiries and consent-based Integrated Assessments. Once assessments are completed, cases transfer to other teams—allowing you to focus on early, impactful intervention.
• You’ll manage a complex caseload while supporting colleagues through mentoring, coaching, and day-to-day supervision. You’ll also step in for the Team Manager when needed, giving you valuable leadership experience in a nurturing and collaborative environment. Your input will help shape decision-making, promote reflective practice, and ensure our interventions are strengths-based, proportionate, and outcome-focused.
• Principal Accountabilities

Principal Accountabilities

• To act appropriately to tasks allocated by your Team Manager.
• To assist in ensuring that there is a good understanding of child protection matters in the Team.
• To undertake decision making in relation to new referrals and to co-ordinate quality, proportionate assessments of need informed by best Departmental practice, guidance and resources.
• To ensure that appropriate information is available for citizens and carers and to promote the involvement of citizens and carers in both care planning and service development.
• To work closely with the performance and data collection service to ensure accurate information is recorded and available for quarterly reporting purposes.
• To provide supervision, mentoring and support to staff in accordance with the departments policy for regular and quality supervision sessions at least once per month.
• To identify training needs of staff and liaise with Workforce Development in identifying the most appropriate support.
• To work in cooperation with colleagues in this Department and in other agencies in order to provide an efficient service to service citizens and carers.
• Where appropriate to chair complex meetings.
• To attend team meetings and undertake any necessary and appropriate team duties and activities.
• To contribute to the professional development of less experienced colleagues as appropriate.
• To comply with the relevant sections of the Authority’s policy statement on Health, Safety and Welfare at Work.
• To adhere to the principles of the Corporate Equality Policy and ensure commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.

General Accountabilities

• To comply with the Council’s Policy Statement on Health, Safety and Welfare at Work.
• To positivity promote the Council’s Strategic Equality Plan and ensure commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.
• To demonstrate a commitment to ongoing personal development.
• To adhere to data protection principles whilst undertaking your duties.
• To be responsible for undertaking your duties in a way that safeguards and promotes the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. You must bring issues of concern regarding the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk to the attention of the Safeguarding Officer in your service as soon as you become aware of them.
• Undertake other duties that may be required of you, commensurate of your grade or general level of responsibility within the organisation.

This job description sets out the main responsibilities of the position at the date it was drawn up. Such duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.