Senior Practitioner

Description:

About The Role

Kent embraces blended working, with scope for a combination of working from home and office. You will be working with a supportive established management team and

supported in Team with a permanent manager and social work assistant, with good quality supervision, and have excellent opportunities for professional development to manage a varied and complex caseload working with children and their families.

You’ll develop areas of specialist practice and bring your professional expertise to a range of cases including of complex cases.

As a role model for good practice and champion for your area of expertise, you’ll set performance expectations, striking a balance between support and oversight. As well as coaching and mentoring less experienced staff, you’ll have the opportunity to act as a Practice Assessor for ASYE and student social workers.

You’ll share your knowledge and experience with the team in a number of ways, including, joint visits, court attendance, case audits and reviews, you will have opportunities to contribute to working groups and multi-agency forums to support the development of new initiatives.

About You

With a degree in social work – CQSW, DipSW or equivalent – you must be registered with Social Work England and should have substantial and varied post-qualification experiences of working with children and families. Your experience should cover systemic practice, and you will need an in-depth understanding of legislative and policy frameworks, along with a willingness to learn and develop as a practitioner; being a team player is essential in any social work team.