Social Work Advanced Practitioner - Initial Response

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Practitioner within the Initial Response Team to work full-time based in Bury.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Practitioner job is £45,441 to £46,464 per annum.

Purpose of the role:

• Ensure high quality practice and effective management of risk and need.
• Provide effective and high quality professional social work to children, families, foster carers and adopters in accordance with legislation, national, regional and local statutory guidance, policies and procedures.
• Work with stakeholders to effectively manage, assess and plan for present and future risk situations of service users by assessing the needs of individual children’s families, foster carers and adopters by drawing on their experiences and voices, and ensuring links to current practice, research and theoretical bases to inform care planning.
• Significantly contribute to the development and implementation of high-quality social work practice within the service.

Main duties:

• Provide a professional social work service to children in need, in need of protection, children in care and their families/carers in accordance with the principles of the Children Act.
• Provide specialist and expert advice in the context of particularly complex or challenging social care cases.
• Personally manage a complex and diverse caseload, ensuring children, families and/or carers receive support to meet their assessed needs.
• Lead and undertake assessments or interventions in complex and/or contentious cases.
• Work directly with challenging children, young people and vulnerable service users employing a wide range of social work knowledge, skills, methods and techniques.
• Process referrals and complete assessments in accordance with statutory requirements and departmental policies.
• Contribute to the preparation and implementation of plans for children in need, children in need of protection, children in care, foster carers, adopters, and family support.

Requirements of this Advanced Practitioner role:

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Advanced Practitioner job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

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