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    Practice Leader - London, United Kingdom - Greenwich Council

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    Description

    We are seeking

    for an experienced social worker who is a dynamic leader and is keen to develop their career in management and can contribute to delivering an excellent service during a child's journey to get the right help at the right time. We have a progressive Practice Academy which is a professional development hub for Social Workers at all levels, from students and newly qualified social workers to strategic social work leader. The Practice Academy aims to provide a clear model using Compassion Focussed Approaches and Systemic Practice to improve the consistency of our work and benefitting the children and families of Greenwich who use our services.

    This is an exciting opportunity to build a team around you. You will be a Champion for Children ensuring the best interest of the child is always paramount in decision making. You will be providing consultation to the professional network.

    About the Service :

    We are ambitious for children and on a journey to improve the quality of social work practice. We provide excellent training opportunities, we provide management development, and we are serious about social work careers and support regular supervision.

    Care Teams include 7 Social Work teams offering a service to children in our care with the main responsibility for ensuring effective care planning, safeguarding and permanence arrangements, placement suitability to meet needs and stability. The Teams also complete care proceedings in the Family Court, providing assessment evidence and opinion to assist in the determination of a permanence outcome for the child(ren). The Service has also recently appointed a Court Progression Manager to offer additional support, oversight and quality assurance of cases in pre (PLO) and care proceedings.

    Please view the attached Job Profile for the key requirements for this role and address these when completing your supporting statement. All applicants require Social Work England registration and must be qualified Social Workers. This role requires an Enhanced DBS. In accordance with our safeguarding policy, if you are shortlisted references are required prior to interview. Please see attached our safeguarding statement.

    Advert closes: 13/05/2024

    Interview dates: TBC

    As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

    Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

    High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

    DBS: This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974).

    Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

    How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

    Interview Arrangements: During this time, our priority for all of our recruitment activity is to make sure our applicants, hiring departments and new starters are informed, safe and supported. Careful and thorough consideration will be given to interview arrangements and for any essential in-person recruitment, we will ensure this is held in a suitable, secure setting with additional arrangements to ensure any current safety requirements are fully adhered to.

    Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

    Our Staff Values: are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.



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