Senior Practitioner Family Help

Role: Senior Practitioner

Department: Children's Services

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Senior Practitioner on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their Children's Services Team department.

As a Senior Practitioner, you will be responsible to:

• Provide reflective supervision to explore the NQSW's practice and factors influencing their practice responses (including emotions, assumptions, power relations and the wider social context). Develop a shared understanding of the knowledge base informing their analysis and the limitations of their thinking, and use this understanding to inform next steps. Guide the NQSWs with problem solving and assisting them with planning and decision making.
• Co-work complex cases and use advanced professional knowledge, skills, experience and initiative to support the NQSWs to develop assessment skills to identify and analyse risk to children and develop safety and supportive plans. Co-work cases in crisis with the NQSWs, directing the social workers and influencing decision making on the case. Support NQSWs practice development towards excellence.
• Attend all case work supervisions with your NQSWs. Write a case note following case supervision breaking down tasks and ensuring the NQSW understands all decisions made. Review these decisions two weeks after case supervision.
• Support the NQSWs to gather and analyse sensitive and confidential information on families and record on LCS, collating key information relating to children's safeguarding and protection.
• Contribute to the NQSW assessment reviews as three, six and twelve months of their assessed year of employment.

Skills and Experience

• Substantial post qualifying experience including in - depth experience in the field of child and family social work .
• Demonstrable experience of coaching / mentoring including practice teaching .
• In-depth service specific knowledge of children's safeguarding and management of risk.
• Demonstrable aptitude towards delivery of the highest possible standards of professional practice by all NQSW's, achieved through effective co working and provision of guidance, challenge, advice and assistance.
• In-depth skills to make and act upon sound professional judgements based on levels of risk .
• Demonstrable ability to organise and prioritise work, planning tasks and working well to competing deadlines and meeting agreed targets .
• Demonstrable ability to undertake research and initiate change / development as a result .
• Knowledge of current legislation, national guidance and best practice relevant to the post .

DBS

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for Disclosure and Barring Service checks to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application you disclose whether you have any convictions, bind overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders 1974 (Exemptions) (Amendments) Order 1986. Therefore, applications are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are 'spent' under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being take-up, any failure to disclose such convictions will results in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority. The fact that a bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

About Us

Luton Borough Council have partnered with Kent County Council to create Connect2Luton, a recruitment managed service for all contingent temporary agency, contract, and interim roles at the Council.

Our heritage and being local government owned which means we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise within the public sector, with many of our employees having previously worked for the Council or have supplied previously into the Council, for several years.

We are an equal opportunities employment agency and business that positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Connect2Luton is a trading style of Luton & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Luton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Luton is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.