Senior Practitioner - Family Support & Protection, North Essex

Job description

Senior Practitioner - Family Spport & Protection, North Essex

Permanent, Part Time

£48,5 to £57,988 per annm (fll time eqivalent)

Actal Salary £38,564 to £46,39 per annm (based on 9.6 hors per week)

Location: Colchester

Working Style: Commnity-based worker

Closing Date: 11th October 6

Interview Date: th October 6

This is a Part Time position 4 days per week (9.6 hors)

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Applicants mst have a crrent, nrestricted right to work in the K.

Family Spport & Protection (FS&P)

Family Spport and Protection works with families facing long-term, complex challenges. This involves interventions lasting over three months, addressing sitations where children are nder child protection or child-in-need plans, or where they can no longer live at home, necessitating care proceedings.

The Opportnity

Children and Families is a service where social work thrives, fostering a cltre of collaboration, integrity, and compassion. Or mission is to promote the development and wellbeing of children, yong people, and their families, shielding them from neglect and abse. By partnering with varios agencies, we deliver early help, family spport, and effective social work interventions that bild resilience, remove barriers, and enable children and yong people to envision a brighter ftre.

The Role of Senior Practitioner

As a Senior Practitioner, yo will manage a complex caseload and provide expert spervision and coaching to colleages, driving positive change for children, yong people, and families. Yo will also deptise for the Team Manager, leading the team and managing dty services.

Join s in making a tangible difference in the lives of children and families, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their fll potential. Together, we can create a spportive and nrtring environment where every child can look forward to a brighter ftre.

Accontabilities

As a Senior Practitioner, yo will:

Provide Expert Gidance:Offer expert advice and professional spervision to social workers, contribting to the development of practice standards.

Assess and Spport:Evalate complex social care needs and develop spport plans for vlnerable individals, children, and families.

Ensre Compliance:Work within stattory legal frameworks, policies, and gidelines, determining when stattory intervention is necessary.

Manage Caseloads:Handle a complex caseload, ensring accrate and timely data, reports, and presentations.

Lead in Critical Sitations:Participate in case conferences, cort attendances, meetings, and stattory reviews, taking the lead when a social care perspective is reqired.

Safegard and Promote Welfare:Condct assessments and plan interventions to safegard and promote children's welfare.

Bild Strong Relationships:Foster effective working relationships across the Concil, with partners, and volntary agencies to help people get the best start in life and age well.

Deliver Expertise:Provide high-level expertise in specific practice areas, leading and contribting to their development.

Achieve Targets:Meet individal and shared targets and objectives defined annally within the performance management framework.

Join s in this pivotal role where yor expertise and leadership will make a significant impact on the lives of children, yong people, and families. Together, we can bild a spportive commnity and create brighter ftres.

The Experience Yo Will Bring

A recognised social work qalification i.e. Diploma, degree or master's in social work, CQSW, CSS or eqivalent, with crrent registration with Social Work England (SWE) as a registered social worker.

Evidence of contining professional development, aligned to any relevant Professional Competency/Capability frameworks or Knowledge and Skills Statements.

Significant experience of social work, demonstrating a comprehensive and p to date nderstanding of all relevant legislation, reglation and gidance.

Experience of mentoring both Social Work stdents and newly qalified and experienced Social Work staff, being a sbject matter expert in professional social work practice.

Experience of chairing meetings involving clients, family members and/or carers and other mlti-agency professionals.

Developing strong relationships with partners, other agencies and the local commnity to achieve joint objectives and offer a spportive framework for children, yong people and families.

In depth nderstanding of delivery of vale for money interventions balanced against need.

Proven track record of clear decision making to highlight and limit the potential risks associated with intervention.

To read more abot or bsiness area, please visit: Children & Families

Please take a look at or 'No Magic' Children & Families video

Why Essex?

As one of the largest and most dynamic K local athorities, Essex offers a stimlating pblic service environment. Covering over 1,4 sqare miles and serving 1.8 million residents, we're committed to transformational change and delivering better qality at lower cost. Recognised in the top three of the latest IMPOWER index for prodctivity, we ensre everyone matters in Everyone's Essex . With flexible working options and a focs on innovation, whether yo are looking to develop yor career or contribte to the local commnity, Essex is the ideal place for yo.

In March 6, Greater Essex was accepted on to the devoltion priority programme, where we will work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined Conty Athority. Yo can read more abot these changes, and what this may mean for this role, on or careers site .

Essex Conty Concil is prod to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply nder or Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimm reqirements of the job. Please speak to or Recriters if yo reqire any reasonable adjstments dring the process. We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimm reqirements of the role for which they are applying.

Once yo've secred yor role within Essex Conty Concil yo will receive many great employee benefits, inclding spport for npaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

At Essex Conty Concil, we vale integrity and ethical behavior. We kindly ask that yo embrace or code of condct and the Nolan principles , inclding throghot the recritment process. Yor commitment to these standards helps s maintain a positive and respectfl workplace for everyone.

The role reqires yo to be mobile throghot a wider operational area inclding travelling arond the conty of Essex and beyond, transporting service sers and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility reqirements of the role throgh other means is essential.

As part of employment with Essex Conty Concil (ECC) shold yor role reqire a DBS check yo will be reqired to register with the DBS pdate service. The DBS pdate service ensres all registered DBS certificates are kept p to date and allows athorised parties to view the stats of yor certificate. This is an annal sbscription, and yo will be responsible for ensring this is maintained. For frther information on the DBS pdate service please go to https://www.gov.k/dbs-pdate-service

Essex Conty Concil is committed to safegarding and promoting the welfare of children and vlnerable adlts and expects all employees and volnteers to share this commitment.

If yo wold like to be kept p to date on other relevant opportnities, blogs, news, events and indstry related news at Essex Conty Concil, please join The Essex Talent Commnity

If yo have qeries on this role or reqire anything frther, please email [email protected]

Follow s on Facebook , Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn . Frther details can be fond on or careers page .

Downloads

Pay and Reward | Or Ways of Working | Abot s | Organisation Behaviors