Advanced Practitioner, £38ph, Children’s Services

Advanced Practitioner, £38ph, Children’s Care Services
Pertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Social Workers to join the Children’s Care Service. The postholder will take a lead role in ensuring that all operational social work practice involving safeguarding, child protection and high level risk is of the highest possible standard and in accordance with relevant legislation and agreed policy, procedures and guidance.

Key duties:

• Ensure through the provision of services that children are safe and achieving good outcomes. 2
• Provide practice or professional leadership, through the development of research-informed practice, quality assurance, staff development, knowledge development or management.
• Influence and contribute to strategic development in the organisation.
• Guide and support a range of internal and external professionals on cases where there are particularly high levels of complexity or risk.
• Ensure that effective risk management, decision making, and preventative work is undertaken to ensure that children are safeguarded effectively.
• Chair meetings that carry high levels of complexity or risk.
• Ensure complex cases that involve external partners, and their respective legal, statutory and regulatory functions are referred to the Safeguarding Unit for wider consideration.
• Support interventions that may require complex court work (court of protection).
• Authorise and quality assure reports, assessments and court documentation to ensure appropriate evaluation of risk and present evidence-based statements to Court.
• Take a constructive approach towards innovation and changes in methods of working to provide the best outcomes for children and families.
• Lead on specific projects including service developments and manage a caseload as and when required.

Requirements:

• Social Work qualification e.g. Degree in Social Work; DipSW or equivalent
• Registered with SWE
• Extensive post-qualification experience of working with children in a statutory setting.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in line with PCF.
• Experience of supporting and mentoring staff.

If this sounds like the role for you, please contact Aishah Hassan on
Aishah.hassan@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager