Senior Social Worker: Family Support Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Family Support Team to work full time based in Bath and North East Somerset.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £39,571 per annum

Main Duties:

• To carry out the duties and responsibilities of the Children Act 1989, 2004 in particular and all other relevant legislation
• Undertake interviews, assessments, observations and information gathering
• Produce assessments and plans that identify explicit aims, objectives and outcomes within the context of safeguarding and managing risk in accordance with local procedures and timescales
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other professionals, partner agencies and schools
• To obtain feedback from service users at regular intervals to ensure we are meeting their needs
• To be familiar with the policies/protocols and guidance relevant to the area of work
• Ensure that the views of children and young people are at the centre of their assessments and that this is reflected in case recording, assessments and plans
• To maintain case records in accordance with departmental policy
• To undertake direct work with children and young people in accordance with their care plan
• To attend court and child protection conference alone and make appropriate decisions and recommendations unless outside budgetary control
• To ensure that families are given information in a form they can understand to access local support to meet their needs
• To contribute to the delivery of the LSCB training plan
• To participate in training and staff development in accordance with continuous professional development (CPD) and evidence-based learning
• To act as practice educator

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 is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.