Children & Young People's Senior Practitioners - Teignbridge, Devon, United Kingdom - Tameside Community Safety Partnership

Description

Social Work Senior Practitioner (Duty & Locality)
Children's Services


Contract Type:
Permanent

Senior Practitioner - Duty and Assessment and Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding and Support (please indicate your preference within your application form)

Tameside Children's Social Care have an exciting opportunity for Senior Practitioners in both our Duty and Assessment Teams and Safeguarding and Support Teams, ideal for qualified and experienced social workers who are looking to take the next step in their career.

You will contribute to ensuring timely assessment and intervention for our children, achieving this through professional and reflective supervision, supporting staff learning and development, and ensuring the production of high quality work to improve the outcomes for our children.

The Senior Practitioner role is the first step on the management ladder.

You will hold a small caseload of complex cases whilst supporting the Team Manager in improving the service delivery to the children open for assessment, intervention, and support, by providing a mentoring and coaching role for Social Workers.

You will support the leadership of the team and service through the provision of mentoring, coaching, support and practice expertise to other less experienced team members, supporting in their professional development and progression.

You will take responsibility under the direction of the team manager for the support of our ASYE and student social workers, by providing opportunities for group supervision and reflective learning opportunity though co-working and the sharing of best practice examples.

We are looking for candidates with substantive previous experience of working with children and their families in a statutory social care environment.

You will need to have good knowledge of legislation and professional practice, and will have the opportunity to work with children and families alongside management responsibilities, such as, chairing meetings and supervising and supporting social workers.

Tameside children social care has adopted a trauma informed strength and relationship based approach as our practice framework, and you will have a team of social workers with manageable caseload to facilitate reflective practice.

A minimum of 28 days leave per year, with the option to buy additional leave
~Family friendly policies, including maternity, paternity and adoption leave
~ Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
~ Health and Wellbeing Support
~ Salary Sacrifice Schemes
~ Discounts at local shops, health & fitness clubs, restaurants and much more

Be that difference and find out more information why you should work for us here For further details about this job opportunity or an informal discussion, please contact Daniel Murphy, Service Unit Manager on or daniel.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

• As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers carers and ex-military personnel.

We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Skip to content Back to results Report an issue Social Work Senior Practitioner (Duty & Locality)
Children's Services


Contract Type:
Permanent

Salary:
Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 6BH

Closing Date:
Wednesday, 22nd May 2024

Interview Date:
To be arranged The role Senior Practitioner - Duty and Assessment and Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding and Support (please indicate your preference within your application form)

Tameside Children's Social Care have an exciting opportunity for Senior Practitioners in both our Duty and Assessment Teams and Safeguarding and Support Teams, ideal for qualified and experienced social workers who are looking to take the next step in their career.

You will contribute to ensuring timely assessment and intervention for our children, achieving this through professional and reflective supervision, supporting staff learning and development, and ensuring the production of high quality work to improve the outcomes for our children.

The Senior Practitioner role is the first step on the management ladder.

You will hold a small caseload of complex cases whilst supporting the Team Manager in improving the service delivery to the children open for assessment, intervention, and support, by providing a mentoring and coaching role for Social Workers.

You will support the leadership of the team and service through the provision of mentoring, coaching, support and practice expertise to other less experienced team members, supporting in their professional development and progression.

You will take responsibility under the direction of the team manager for the support of our ASYE and student social workers, by providing opportunities for group supervision and reflective learning opportunity though co-working and the sharing of best practice examples.

About you

We are looking for candidates with substantive previous experience of working with children and their families in a statutory social care environment.

You will need to have good knowledge of legislation and professional practice, and will have the opportunity to work with children and families alongside management responsibilities, such as, chairing meetings and supervising and supporting social workers.

Tameside children social care has adopted a trauma informed strength and relationship based approach as our practice framework, and you will have a team of social workers with manageable caseload to facilitate reflective practice.

A minimum of 28 days leave per year, with the option to buy additional leave
~Family friendly policies, including maternity, paternity and adoption leave
~ Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
~ Health and Wellbeing Support
~ Salary Sacrifice Schemes
~ Discounts at local shops, health & fitness clubs, restaurants and much more

Be that difference and find out more information why you should work for us here For further details about this job opportunity or an informal discussion, please contact Daniel Murphy, Service Unit Manager on or daniel.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

• As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

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We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers carers and ex-military personnel.

We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. contract
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