Senior Practitioner - Kinship Assessment

Role: Senior Practitioner - Kinship Assessment

Department: CHILDREN & LEARNING

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Senior Practitioner - Kinship Assessment on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their CHILDREN & LEARNING department.

Main purpose of position:

The Senior Practitioner - Kinship Assessment will support the Team Manager to provide high quality of Social Work practice to vulnerable/at risk children and families and ensure effective practice management.

As a Senior Practitioner - Kinship Assessment you will be responsible to:

• Carry a caseload of complex cases requiring a high level of professional skill, providing assessment, care management and other social work services relevant to the needs of the most vulnerable/at risk children and families. Require and maintain unallocated cases.
• Under the direction of the Team Manager, using professional skills and experience to provide practice management to team members to ensure compliance with national and departmental policies, procedures and quality standards.
• Undertake research, training and development activities as required for the department and for the post holders' own professional development.
• As and when agreed by the Team Manager, undertake the role of practice teacher for students undergoing professional training who are on placement in the Department.

Skills and Experience

• Substantial post qualifying experience including some in-depth experience in the field of child and family social work.
• Some experience of coaching/mentoring including practice teaching.
• Ability to demonstrate high level of competence in the practice of child and family social work.

• Excellent organisational, time management and administrative skills.
• Ability to make and act upon sound professional judgements.
• Ability to work to complex and conflicting demands.

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.