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Senior Social Work Practitioner - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Nottingham City Council
Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £41,208 -£45,054 per annum (pro rata for part time) (plus £2,250 market premia)
Working Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 30th April 2024
Interview Date(s): 13th May 2024
About the Role
Families Together is a relatively new team that are supporting young people and their families to prevent where possible them coming into care. We have 1 post available and the person we are looking for will use an approach which builds on strengths of the child/young person and family and who uses a trauma informed approach to supporting the team. This is a busy team dealing with families at crisis point but it also a very rewarding job when you see positive outcomes of the team. We are looking for someone who is able to support the Family Intervention Workers and Social Workers, co-working any tricky cases, who is keen to ensure that we are keeping on track with performance, who is able to stay calm during difficult periods and who has a positive can do approach. You will be doing supervision of alternatively qualified staff in the team, POD's, chairing meetings and also stepping in when the team manager is not available with support from another manager who is covering.
We are already seeing positive results for the team and gaining some lovely feedback from families, young people and other professionals, so please come and join us to continue to support in developing and shape the service further
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our .
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role,
