Senior Practitioner - Disabled Children's Team

Senior Practitioner - Disabled Children's Team

Haringey, London, Greater London, England

N4

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

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £52,116 per annum.

Responsibilities :

• To be responsible for a managed caseload of the more complex cases in the service and ensure the delivery of a high quality social work input, consistent with accepted notions of best practice and national and local guidance, in the context of partnership working.
• TModel high quality professional behaviour and to develop and promote notions of authoritative practice within the service.
• Progress children's plans in accordance with current local protocols, this may include writing statements within timescales, giving evidence on behalf of the Local Authority in Family Proceedings Court and any other court within the Family Division as required.
• Maintain accurate and up to date electronic case records in line with Departmental policies and procedures and contribute to the continued development of the database.
• Support the development of a service consistent with models of partnership working with other agencies and children and their families and to work with them in enabling children to stay safely at home wherever possible.
• Chair professional meetings and other planning / strategy meetings as required.
• Take responsibility for your personal professional development by maintaining and developing relevant skills and knowledge of current legislation, policy and social work practice through self-direct learning and via formal PQ route.
• Work with the Head of Service, Service Manager and Team Managers in managing the development of the service ensuring it continues to improve and responds to changing need.
• Develop professional expertise in a specialist area and contribute to the development of policy and procedures in certain practice areas and offer training workshops and other learning and development opportunities to the service and others as required.
• Ensure that all expenditure on cases is properly authorized and recorded and that cases with financial packages are regularly monitored and reviewed.
• To undertake any other temporary duties consistent with the basic duties and / or objectives of the post.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner role :

Contact :

This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.

IsExpired note : This posting may include additional job listings and notices not relevant to this role. Please rely on the core Senior Practitioner description above.

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