Lead Practitioner - Warwick, United Kingdom - Warwickshire County Council

Warwickshire County Council

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Warwick

05/02/202- Lead Practitioner

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Job details

Salary
£45, £47,420.00 per annum

Contractual hours
37

Basis
Full time

Region
Warwick

Package
Fulltime, Permanent

Job category/type
Social Work Children's (Qualified)

Date posted
22/01/2024

Job reference
RA0005710

Job description

About the Role
***Here at Warwickshire County Council we put children and families at the heart of everything we do. We aim to ensure that Warwickshire's children, young people, parents and carers receive the right help at the right time.

We are passionate about supporting communities and families to build on their strengths and relationships and find their own solutions.
We are doing great work here and we need great people to join us to continue to improve the lives of local children and their families.
We are excited to be launching this brandnew role and we are looking to recruit experienced and passionate social workers to undertake the role of Lead Practitioner in our Front Door.
Our Lead Practitioner's are located within three different parts of the Service and will have slightly different roles depending on which area of the service you are in. This vacancy is for a Lead Practitioner within the Front Door.

Across all areas, our Lead Practitioners will be:

A role model for good social work practice.
Provide mentoring, coaching support and practice expertise to less experienced team members.
Passion for achieving better outcomes for vulnerable children and their families and this will be demonstrated through restorative practice.
This role will support development into a management role in the future. This may include conducting supervision meetings and supporting other members of the team and providing management support.
A comprehensive knowledge of the challenges associated with working with children and their families is essential.
Applicants for the role will need a professional Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration.

Applicants for the role will need a

professional Social Work qualification and

Social Work England Registration.

We also offer agile working, as well as hybrid working Children and families service - rewards and benefits

Warwick

shire County Council.

About the Front Door

The Front Door is the point for all referrals where members of the community and professionals refer children and young people living in Warwickshire where they are worried about their safety and welfare. This is an officebased post with no facetoface work with children and families. There is also the requirement to support and supervise Children and Families Advisors.

The post will offer you the opportunity:

To make informed threshold decisions at a managerial level using the threshold documents and protocols agreed by all partner agencies.
To manage information sharing from all agencies, recording the concerns on appropriate data bases, analysing both historical and current concerns to achieve a timely response adhering to timescales.
To ensure that an appropriate pathway is followed for ongoing intervention.
To provide consultation and advice to agency referrers about thresholds, appropriate actions and outcomes and signpost as appropriate.
To supervise alternatively qualified staff

About WCC Children and Families Service

At Warwickshire County Council (WCC) we work with children and families restoratively, building strong relationships and connections to help families find longlasting solutions. Our work contributes to our wider County Council aim to make Warwickshire the best it can be for everyone. It's a big responsibility that can be challenging at times, but this is what drives our staff to succeed, develop and achieve. If you're someone who wants to do the best job possible, who approaches everything with passion, tenacity, courage and purpose, then we want you to work with us.
WCC is an authority that engages with innovation. We are a financially secure local authority and want to achieve an outstanding service for children. To this end we have received £21m investment programme over four years to implement new and creative ways of working with children. This funding is from both the Council and Department for Education to strengthen relationship and evidenced based practice.
We are introducing the Leeds Family Values model which includes increasing Family Group Conferences, providing more support for Special Guardians and a Caring Dads Programme. We are also implementing Multi-Disciplinary ways of working (which is focussed on embedding adult mental health, substance misuse and domestic abuse services in our teams. We also have a new Children's Workforce Academy to further support our staff and manager