Advanced Social Work Practitioner - Kinship Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Work Practitioner within the Kinship Team to work full time based in Hillingdon.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Social Work Practitioner job is up to £54,129 per annum.

Main duties:

• Provide professional leadership to social work colleagues through demonstrating exemplary practice, sharing knowledge, and positively managing the interface between practice and education/training.
• Act as organisational expert in role specialism, providing advice and support to other social work colleagues and partners.
• Disseminate specialised Kinship knowledge and advice to other teams as required.
• Co-ordinate and have oversight of regular Group supervision and reflective time for the team members, providing coaching and mentoring as required. Arrange learning for the team at intervals throughout the year that can be considered for continued Professional Development.
• Develop the Kinship support offer to families and lead on this with the team, including the ongoing facilitation of Skills to Foster training for Kinship carers.
• Directly support learners in the team, such as apprentices and SW Students, which may include a Practice Educator role as required. This will entail office-based working where needed to ensure best learning opportunities and outcomes.
• Manage a social work caseload of the most complex cases.
• Model and take responsibility for workforce planning and workload allocation systems to sustain the Standards for Employers of Social Workers.
• Provide professional consultation to all teams within the directorate and other agencies, ensuring effective and efficient practice and procedures are in place.
• Demonstrate awareness and compliance with required Standards including the Social Work Professional Capabilities Framework.

Requirements of this role:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:

This Advanced Social Work Practitioner job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.