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Senior Practitioner

PPR Social Care
Posted 11 hours ago, valid for 12 days
Location

Birmingham, West Midlands B27 6QS, England

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Part Time

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  • The role involves providing leadership in enhancing the quality of social work practice for children, young people, and their families.
  • Candidates should have experience in managing complex casework within the children and families service.
  • The position requires a salary of £40,000 per year and a minimum of three years of relevant experience.
  • Responsibilities include mentoring less experienced social workers and ensuring compliance with legislative requirements.
  • The role emphasizes collaboration with service users and other agencies to promote effective partnership working.
Your 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.
  • 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.
  • To be responsible for allocated cases including a complex caseload.
  • To provide technical/professional expertise to less experienced social workers.
  • To share/communicate a thorough working knowledge of relevant legislation, national standards, guidance, research, departmental policy and procedures.
  • To provide quality assurance and coaching/mentoring to work colleagues.
  • 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.
  •  Participates in the regular collection, collation and reporting of appropriate performance management information in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements.
  • Actively participates in training and development activities.
  • Represents the Department in meetings etc as required.
  • Actively supports the Team Manager by undertaking any other duties commensurate with the job or needs of the service.
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:
  • A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
  • An easy registration process (all done online)
  • Referral schemes and incentives
  • Ongoing compliance managed for you
  • Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more
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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.