Senior Practitioner, Referral & Assessment

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Referral & Assessment Team to work full time based in Bromley.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £50,062 per annum

Main duties:

• To be responsible for complex cases and detailed assessments including, where appropriate, Child Protection Assessments.
• To assist the Manager, as required in aspects of the Team’s work including the allocation of work; maintaining, developing and encouraging high professional standards; and supporting the supervision and development of individual staff.
• To keep up to date with good practice guidance, current legislation, Government initiatives and local policies and procedures with a view to playing a lead role in disseminating these within the team.
• To provide consultation, advice and guidance to Team members on professional issues.
• To assist the Head of Service in developing and maintaining projects within agreed timetables.
• To represent the Manager or Head of Service at internal and external meetings where appropriate, and to act as Deputy to the Manager.
• To assist the Manager, when required, in the performance management for all staff.
• To assist, when required, in ensuring that the Council’s employee communication system (CASCADE) is fully implemented and maintained in order that all employees receive appropriate information and that employee feedback is encouraged.
• To be aware of health and safety within the workplace to ensure the safety of staff.
• To actively participate in the overall management and development of the service through Team Meetings and Service wider meetings; attend and participate positively in Team and other meetings as required with a view to promoting the development of an integrated response to clients needs, concentrating on the delivery of an efficient and effective service.
• To keep abreast of changes in legislation: national and local trends. To develop and maintain a working knowledge of major Council policies, procedures and practice guidance notes and work within them at all times.
• To maintain management information systems and provide regular reports identifying trends an proposing solutions where problems are identified.
• To provide cover for the work of other Senior Practitioners and Team Managers as required and arrange cover for other Team members across the section and Children & Families where necessary.
• To participate fully in the development and maintenance of effective liaison and co-operation with the local community, community groups, other Authorities, agencies and non-statutory organisations.
• To provide management, consultation, professional support, advice and guidance to the immediate team and others across Children & Families.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:

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

Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.