Senior Practitioner - Coventry

Our approach to inclusion and diversity is rooted in listening, learning and acting. This includes conducting ongoing listening forums across the company, the implementation of Inclusion & Diversity talking/support groups, workshops and training, good quality supervision, surveys and collaborative working parties. All with the core aim to receive honest feedback, reflect and continuously strive to be the best that we can be.

We are looking for a Social Worker to join our stable, committed and experienced Senior Management Team to help deliver fair, robust and evidenced based assessments. Our expectation of all staff is to demonstrate kindness, empathy, and fairness to all. Dudley Lodge strives to provide an inclusive working environment and experience, where employees can bring their best, and authentic self to work. Where difference is recognised, respected, valued, and celebrated.

Benefits

• Continuous training and professional development opportunities
• Staff wellbeing events throughout the year
• Team building days
• Employee Assistance Programme - this is a scheme run by Dudley Lodge for its employees. It enables staff to gain access to qualified advisors for a wide range of services day or night.
• Cash plan
• Private Medical Insurance
• A pension scheme with Standard Life, Dudley Lodge contributes 5% towards your pension, also matching additional employee contributions up to 7.5%. The company will increase its contribution to 10% after an employee has reached their 10 years’ service, on condition employees contribute the same.
• Life Assurance - Group Life Assurance Policy with Unun Life. The scheme provides a tax-free benefit to all permanent employees, paying a lump sum amount of 2 x salary in the event of death in service.
• Free tea, coffee, water and fruit for all staff
• Flu vaccinations
• Emergency loan scheme
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Bicycle Scheme
• Enhanced holidays: 27 days plus bank holidays - up to 5 years continuous employment; 32 days plus 8 bank holidays - over 5 years continuous employment

Purpose of Job

To be part of the Senior Management Team which is responsible for undertaking comprehensive assessments with vulnerable children and their families in a residential setting, applying the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (2000) and adhering to Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023). Further, to supervise and oversee a team of Family Assessment Workers, providing on hand support and advice as well as supervisor oversight, review of performance and to provide a high quality and dependable standard of service which meets our organisation's values and standards.

Dudley Lodge is a UK registered non-profit making organisation established in 1895, we are one of the leading Family Assessment Centres in England and Wales. The whole emphasis of our organisation is to safeguard children. We have been conducting quality Family Assessments for over 30 years and over two sites: Coventry and Birmingham. Our purpose is to provide the Courts and other relevant parties concerned with the safeguarding of children, a range of high quality, independent assessments, interventions and services regarding referred parents/carers’ abilities to keep children safe, and to assess their capacity and potential for promoting children’s continuing wellbeing.

Please Refer to JD/PS for details of the job. Successful applicants will be invited into an interview week commencing 4th May.