Childrens Senior Practitioner - Cramlington, United Kingdom - One Way or Another Ltd

One Way or Another Ltd

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Cramlington, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Exploitation Advanced Practitioner role will sit within our Clients Youth Justice Service and will carry a reduced caseload of complex young people exposed to extra familial harm.

The role will support key workers across the county to ensure young people's plan's address issues related to Missing, Slavery, Exploitation and Trafficking.

In the Adolescent Service we care, every day, about the safety, wellbeing and future of young people.

You will have experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment, ideally with direct experience of working with adolescents.

You will have excellent communication skills and be able to make decisions and plans with young people and their families.

You will be empathetic and sensitive to the needs of children, young people and families. You will not be afraid to think creatively to solve problems. You will be passionate about maximising a young person's life chances to improve their overall outcomes. You will care enough to want to make a difference - every day.

You should hold a relevant Social Work qualification such as the Social Work Degree, DipSW, CQSW or CSS and be registered with the HCPC.

Duties and key result areas:

To work with the Team Manager in ensuring that adequate safeguarding arrangements are in place to promote the welfare, health and development of children and young people.
To participate in the duty system taking a lead with less experienced workers to manage crisis situations. To set the highest standards of practice and intervention, role modelling to other social workers.
To attend multi agency child protection conferences (for their own cases as well as supporting new staff with their cases to present reports and assessments for those children deemed to be at risk of significant harm.
To chair CIN Reviews and/or Initial Core Groups care team meetings where there are child welfare concerns, making recommendations for actions and interventions to safeguard children.
Contribute to the support and development of the team and promote effective multi agency service delivery with partner agencies.
To work in conjunction with the Team Manager in utilising the skills within the team to develop and implement programmes of activity, prevention and early intervention in order to support children, young people and families in the community. This will entail fostering effective links with those early intervention agencies within the community, including Children's Centres, health workers and schools.
When required provide informal supervision to members of the social work team and develop a professional skills base through the provision of training and development as appropriate. To act as a mentor for newly appointed staff within the social work teams as well as providing group supervision and workshops to develop staff's knowledge.
In conjunction with the Team Manager to implement and maintain agency records in line with legal obligations and parent agency policy.
To ensure the team work towards achieving key service delivery objectives within the planning processes. In addition, develop and implement systems to ensure satisfactory team performance against key performance indicators/meaningful measures.
Ensure that the objectives set out in the Service Plan are reflected in the Social Work Team Plan. That these identified objectives are implemented within the team and that service delivery at a local level is aligned with Health, Children's Centre and Extended Schools Strategies.
Supported by senior managers work with the Team Manager in setting up robust systems and processes to ensure the Social Work Team interfaces effectively with other professional groups (i.e. Health, Children's Centre and Extended Schools staff) and facilitate staff work within other teams to promote and deliver effective multi agency services.
Supported by the management team, assist the Team Manager in ensuring that specific areas of service delivery are developed and delivered to meet the needs of children, young people and families.
To ensure the maintenance of record keeping in accordance with statutory requirements and Council policy and procedures.
To participate with the Team Manager in the recruitment, selection, training and development of staff in accordance with the Council's recruitment and selection policies and procedures.
To deputise for the Team Manager at meetings, as appropriate this can include Care team meetings/CIN Reviews/LAC Reviews/ICPC/RCPC/Initial Core Groups/Transfer meetings
Any other duties consistent with the, level and grade of the post. The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative and may vary over time.

Post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and extent of the post and the grade has been established on this basis.

Work Arrangements Physical requirements:
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