Advanced Practitioner - Children's & Families Team - Gloucester - Sanctuary Personal

Advanced Practitioner - Children's & Families Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Practitioner within the Children's & Families Team to work Full Time based in Gloucestershire.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Practitioner job is up to £51,356 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate exemplary social work practice in accordance with Social Work England's professional standards to promote and the safety and wellbeing of children and young people in need of support, protection and care.
• Ensure that all social work activity is compliant with statutory guidance, legislation and GCC policies and procedures.
• Deliver consistently good and effective social work practice to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families through evidence-based practice which is consistent with the Essentials Programmes and practice fundamentals.
• Risk assess and review plans to build on identified strengths and address the risk of significant harm to achieve and maintain long term safety and wellbeing for children and young people.
• Establish an effective and collaborative relationship with the Team Manager to achieve and maintain pace, progress, focus and consistency of social work practice and performance in the team.
• Take the lead role to support the professional development of Trainee Social Workers, Newly Qualified Social Workers and other members of the team, as required, by providing mentoring, coaching, modelling, shadowing, observation, advice and guidance.
• Be responsible for undertaking monthly casefile audits and dip sampling exercises to assure and control the quality of social work practice as well as using the fundings to support learning and inform remedial action where required.
• Lead and facilitate monthly group reflective supervision sessions with the team to bring challenge and support, promote professional curiosity and critical thinking, model best practice and promote good outcomes for children and young people.
• Work autonomously with the Team Manager to interrogate performance data on a daily basis, support Social Workers to understand its significance for children and young people and how it can be used to improve practice.
• Chair and attend relevant meetings which require professional input including where Social Workers may need to be supported, including in the court arena where required.
• Be professionally accountable to ensure high-quality and best practice standards for self and others at all times.
• Maintain and facilitate professional working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure service delivery.

Requirements

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact

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, Sanctuary Personnel 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.

Sanctuary 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, 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.