Senior Practitioner
- Employer
- Staffordshire County Council
- Location
- Staffordshire
- Salary
- Grade 10 - £37,890 - £41,881 per annum + car user allowance
- Closing date
- 1 Feb 2022
- Reference
- REC002557
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- Sector
- Health & Social Care / Work
- Job Type
- Social work; Children - Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Working Pattern
- Annualised Hours
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Job title: Senior Practitioner
Service area: Childrens Services
Location: Office base Stafford – but to work on a County wide Basis
Salary: Grade 10 - £37,890 - £41,881 per annum + car user allowance
Working Pattern: 37 Hours per week | Full time | Permanent | Flexible working – we’re happy to discuss options with you
Life-changing work.
Game changing support.
Our role
As a Senior Practitioner at Staffordshire you’ll be key in the support and coaching you’ll help us to provide to our Social Workers. You’ll encourage and ensure that there’s a focus upon quality of practice but also on achieving positive outcomes for children and families.
It’s a great time to join us as a Senior practitioner as following our transformation, we have opportunities available with us across the following teams:
Senior Practitioner – Intensive Fostering and Disability Short Breaks Team
About the role
As a Senior Practitioner in the Intensive Fostering and Disability Short Break Team you will:
- Provide a key role in supporting foster families and the children they care for across the team but primarily within the Turnaround, Residential to Foster, and Resilience Fostering programmes,
- Be required to support with the recruitment, retention, placement matching of children with disabilities / complex needs and young people who are moving from residential care into foster families.
- You will undertake a direct supervisory support role to foster carers and contribute to pre-placement assessments to ensure young people placed are safe whilst being supported and managed in a way that ensures the young person achieves positive outcomes during and beyond their placement experience.
- You will work directly with a range of multi-agency professionals to coordinate long and short-term placement needs
- You will have case management responsibility for complex cases and will co-work cases with less experienced staff.
- You will be available to offer advice, support and consultation to team members including the direct supervision of Family Practitioners.
- Promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies,
- Hold a caseload on a county wide basis.
What you’ll bring
- Qualified Social Worker with at least 3 years post qualifying experience, working with foster carers and children in care as well as demonstrating relevant experience in supervisory responsibility and team development
- Registered with Social Work England
- Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle
A commitment to embedding restorative practice within your role and wider service
Our benefits & offer to you
We know you’ll want to continually develop in your role and potentially progress your career and that’s why we have great training and development opportunities ensuring your individual growth here at Staffordshire.
Plus, there’s also all these other benefits too:
- Generous holiday entitlement from 26 up to 33 days (plus 8 bank holidays and 2 extra statutory days) depending on job role and length of service. That’s a minimum of 36 days annual leave in this role.
- Essential car user allowance
- The option to buy up to an additional 2 weeks annual leave per year
- A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role, which includes agile working, flexible retirement
- Family Friendly Policies - maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave
- An excellent local government pension scheme
- Volunteering Scheme
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- Access to health and wellbeing support (including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Counselling Services)
- Eye care vouchers
- Car lease scheme / cycle & car loan scheme / employee car share scheme
- Bus and rail travel discounts
So, how do I apply?
Just click on the ‘Apply’ button.
If you do have technical issues please contact recruitment@staffordshire.gov.uk and the team will help you.
Closing Date: 1/02/2022
Interview Date: asap following the closing date
For more information about this vacancy or for an informal chat please contact
Team Manager : Joanne Hawkins 01785 277332
Our recruitment process
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
How will we store your details?
By submitting your application form, you are giving your consent to the processing of your personal data in the ways described Here
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities. As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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