Senior Practitioner

Must be social work England registered to apply

- Scope and Purpose of Role

- To provide a lead role in improving the quality of professional social work practice across the breadth of the case work cycle to children, young people and their families.

- To undertake complex casework arising within the children and families service.

- General Duties and Responsibilities

 
2.1       To provide a needs-led, professional social work service to children, young people and their families, complying with legislative requirements and in accordance with established best practice.
 
2.2       To be responsible for allocated cases including a complex caseload.
 
2.3       To provide technical/professional expertise to less experienced social workers.
 
2.4       To share/communicate a thorough working knowledge of relevant legislation, national standards, guidance, research, departmental policy and procedures.
 
2.5       To provide quality assurance and coaching/mentoring to work colleagues.
 
2.6       To take a ‘joined-up’ approach to ensuring the effectiveness of case working, actively promoting/encouraging effective partnership working with service users and other teams/agencies/organisations.