Social Work Senior Practitioner (Duty & Locality)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £43,421 to Scale 39 - £47,420 with a professional bar at Scale 37- £45,441**
Hours: 36 hours per week
Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 6BH
Closing Date: Sunday, 31st March 2024
Interview Date: To be arranged
The role
Senior Practitioner - Duty and Assessment and Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding and Support (please indicate your preference within your application form)
Tameside Children’s Social Care have an exciting opportunity for Senior Practitioners in both our Duty and Assessment Teams and Safeguarding and Support Teams, ideal for qualified and experienced social workers who are looking to take the next step in their career.
You will contribute to ensuring timely assessment and intervention for our children, achieving this through professional and reflective supervision, supporting staff learning and development, and ensuring the production of high quality work to improve the outcomes for our children.
The Senior Practitioner role is the first step on the management ladder. You will hold a small caseload of complex cases whilst supporting the Team Manager in improving the service delivery to the children open for assessment, intervention, and support, by providing a mentoring and coaching role for Social Workers.
You will support the leadership of the team and service through the provision of mentoring, coaching, support and practice expertise to other less experienced team members, supporting in their professional development and progression. You will take responsibility under the direction of the team manager for the support of our ASYE and student social workers, by providing opportunities for group supervision and reflective learning opportunity though co-working and the sharing of best practice examples.
About you
We are looking for candidates with substantive previous experience of working with children and their families in a statutory social care environment. You will need to have good knowledge of legislation and professional practice, and will have the opportunity to work with children and families alongside management responsibilities, such as, chairing meetings and supervising and supporting social workers.
Tameside children social care has adopted a strengths based Signs of Safety model of practice, and you will have a team of social workers with manageable caseload to facilitate reflective practice.
Why work for us?
In Tameside, we like to look after our employees and offer a fantastic range of employee rewards and benefits, including:
- A minimum of 28 days leave per year, with the option to buy additional leave
- 36 hours working week
- Family friendly policies, including maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Health and Wellbeing Support
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes
- Discounts at local shops, health & fitness clubs, restaurants and much more
Be that difference and find out more information why you should work for us here
For further details about this job opportunity or an informal discussion, please contact Daniel Murphy, Service Unit Manager on 0161 342 4366 or daniel.murphy@tameside.gov.uk
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.
** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
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Job Description & Person Specification.pdf
Reference No: DPT531
Social Work Senior Practitioner (Duty & Locality)
Location: Tameside One