Senior Practitioner - Chelmsford, United Kingdom - Sanctuary Health

Sanctuary Health

Verified Company

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Family Support & Protection Team to work full time based in Basildon, Essex.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £50,290 per annum

Main duties:

Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidenceinformed practice.
Support and encourage professional decisionmaking in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.
Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk taking situations.
Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.
Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.
Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.
Mange complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.
Promote positive working relationships in and across team and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirments of data quality legislation.
When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have influence on wider service budget.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:

A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
Understanding of relevant legislation.
Continual professional development.
Social Work England registered.

Contact:

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.

With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.