Senior Practitioner – Young People Service 16+

Salary: Grade 15 (£55,323-£57,402)
Permanent – 36 hours per week
Retention Payment – £2,500
Hybrid working (3 days per week in the office, 2 days at home)

Job Purpose

We are looking to recruit a social work qualified senior practitioner into our recently transformed 16+ service. The service supports Children in Care who are aged 16-17 and Care Experienced adults aged 18-25. This is an exciting time to join Croydon as we have recently reconfigured the service to create smaller teams with additional management support. We are also working with our multi-agency partners to create dedicated specialist support for our young people, including from Health, Adult Services, Housing and Education. We are looking for social worker who have experience of working with young people who are in Care and Care Experienced. The role will include practice development and supporting newly qualified social workers within the service.

Essential Requirements

Significant post-qualifying experience of multi-agency working, risk management, care and permanence planning, ability to analyse complex circumstances and formulate appropriate intervention plans.
Experience of delivering high quality direct and life story work within a systemic practice framework to increase outcomes and care planning for our young people, to enable them to move into independence with better outcomes.
We are looking for creative and highly motivated experienced social workers who consistently ensure that young people are central to their intervention.
Experience of working with children in care and supporting them to progress effectively to adulthood with appropriate skills for independence.
Ability to create and maintain relationships whilst applying appropriate challenge to advocate for young people.
Experience of supporting less experienced social workers is desirable, for instance qualified practice educators.
Qualification in or experience of working within a systemic practice framework including use or facilitating group supervision to achieve high quality outcomes.

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