Senior Practitioner, Permanency Lead

Sanctuary Personnel

  • Rochester, Kent
  • £58,934 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 months ago
  • Apply easily
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Permanency Lead Team to work full time based in Medway.The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £58,934 per annum.Main duties:
  • To ensure the provision of an efficient service to children and young people in need of protection and children and young people looked after by Medway Council.
  • To ensure efficient and effective inter-agency working in respect of the child protection system and of services to children looked after.
  • To constructively challenge actions and interventions that are not delivering the required outcomes for children and young people.
  • To comply with statutory guidance by providing independent review of looked after children.
  • To contribute to quality assurance measures and performance management systems to maintain and promote high practice standards.
  • To chair complex case conferences/review meetings effectively, facilitating the full participation of professionals, parents and children and young people, and ensuring the views of children and young people are heard and given due attention.
  • To actively promote work life balance and flexible working in order to achieve high quality service delivery.
  • To actively promote the Council’s Fair Access, Diversity and Inclusion Policy and observe the standard of conduct which prevents discrimination taking place.
  • To ensure full compliance with the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, the Council’s Health and Safety Policy and all locally agreed safe methods of work.
  • To fully understand and be aware of the commitment to Section 17 of the duty of Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to prevent crime and disorder.
  • At the discretion of the Head of Service, such other activities as may from time to time may be agreed consistent with the nature of the job described above.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner role:
  • A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • Substantial experience in health or social care.
Contact:This Senior 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. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.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.

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