Senior Practitioner - Social Work Academy Team

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Social Work Academy Team to work full time based in Luton. The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £43,421 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Provide reflective supervision to explore the NQSW\’s practice and factors influencing their practice responses (including emotions, assumptions, power relations and the wider social context).
• Develop a shared understanding of the knowledge base informing their analysis and the limitations of their thinking, and use this understanding to inform next steps.
• For new starters, reflective supervision will be provided weekly for the first six weeks and fortnightly until the NQSW\’s six month review and a minimum of bi-monthly thereafter.
• Promote resilience and empower NQSWs to advocate for themselves and the children and families they work with, including professional challenge with managers and colleagues.
• Co-work complex cases and use advanced professional knowledge, skills, experience and initiative to support the NQSWs to develop assessment skills to identify and analyse risk to children and develop safety and supportive plans.
• Co-work cases in crisis with the NQSWs, directing the social workers and influencing decision making on the case. Support NQSWs\’ practice development towards excellence.
• Support and mentor the practice development of our NQSWs by reviewing their work before submission to the Team Manager for authorization and informally quality assuring their case files against defined standards.
• Attend all case work supervision with your NQSWs. Write a case note following case supervision, outlining tasks and ensuring the NQSW understands all decisions made. Review these decisions two weeks after case supervision.
• Support the NQSWs to gather and analyse sensitive and confidential information on families and record on LCS, collating key information relating to children\’s safeguarding and protection.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in accordance with the Data Protection Act and GDPR.
• Within the first six weeks provide bespoke induction to all NQSWs, including home visits, attending meetings, liaising with partner agency representatives and working within multi-agency settings.
• Contribute to the NQSW assessment reviews at three, six and twelve months of their assessed year of employment.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Substantial experience in health or social care.

Contact and Additional Information

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, 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 reflects the clients that candidates will support in their role. Sanctuary takes pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). We provide reasonable adjustments during recruitment and in the workplace upon request.