Senior Practitioner - North Locality Safeguarding and Support

Job Title: Senior Practitioner - North Locality Safeguarding and Support - Ref: CH14123

Location: Essington Lodge, Willenhall, WV12 5EX, GB

Salary: G11, £46,464 - £51,515 per annum

Job Type: Permanent, full-time

Closing Date: 31st March 2024

About The Role:

Walsall Children's Services is currently looking to recruit 2 Senior Practitioners within our Family Safeguarding and Support North Locality Team. These posts will be based in the North Locality which is located in Essington Lodge which has onsite parking. The service comprises of 4 Locality Family Safeguarding and Support Teams with each team comprising of up to 8 practitioners, including an adult specialist worker.

This really is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to develop and share your knowledge and experience within a high performing, stable and very supportive team.

Main purpose of the role:

• To provide effective help and protection to children, young people, families and carers, and help them to achieve positive outcomes
• To undertake effective assessment, planning and direct work to safeguard children and young people and to meet their needs, and the needs of families and carers
• To practice social work in a transparent, accountable and safe way in accordance with professional standards and ethics
• To be practice leader, and to lead the development of high quality of practice and service delivery within the team
• To support all frontline practitioners in the team, and to be aware of and manage performance within the team
• Responsible for ASYE Social Workers, and Child and Family Officers (pending Social Work qualification)

About You:

The post holder must have a social work qualification or equivalent and must be registered with Social Work England. This post is covered by the Government's Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers.

The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Knowledge and Experiences:

• Experience of working directly with children and young people
• Experience of assessment and interventions or support programmes
• Knowledge of key theories and methods for work with children, young and families such as child development, systems theory and restorative practice
• To have extensive experience of utilising a range of social work skills at PQ level within a Local Authority or recognised equivalent authority
• Experience of supporting and developing skills and learning for practitioners in Children's Social Care

Qualification:

• Social work qualification, BA, MA, CQSW, CSS, DipSW
• Registration with Social Work England
• Evidence of CPD, i.e. Log of CPD as required for Social Work England re-registration
• Evidence of ASYE completion if appropriate, and has at least two years of experience post-ASYE

About Us:

Here at Walsall, we want to attract the best talent. That's why - as well as a satisfying and rewarding job - we offer a range of attractive benefits. Working arrangements in most jobs are flexible (you may work flexitime, full or part time and job sharing is usually available) and you can expect generous holiday entitlements, a first-class pension scheme and plenty of opportunities for training and personal development.

We advertise vacancies because we want the best talent available. If that's you, we're waiting for your application.

For more information about this role, view the Job Description and Employee Specification on the Walsall Council website.

Extra Information:

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.

Please click the APPLY button to be redirected to the council's website to complete your application.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Safeguarding Lead, Safeguarding Support, Senior Social Worker, Senior Probation Officer, Therapeutic Care, Senior Care Support Worker, Senior Care Worker, Public Health, Care Assistant, Domiciliary Support, Child Care, Support Team Leader, Senior Residential Care, Senior Child Care Worker, Child Support Worker, Senior Adult Care and Healthcare Official may also be considered for this role.