Senior Practitioner – Young Croydon – Families Together
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

This is a specialist role focused on preventing and protecting young people and the families from exploitation and serious harm in all forms. The successful Senior Practitioner would be responsible for supporting practice development via leadership of elements of casework, individual and group coaching, reflective supervision’ quality assurance and workshops in the specific area of expertise. The post holder would be required to directly support the delivery, and contribute to the delivery of, positive safety and well-being outcomes for children in need and their families, where extra familial arm is a key concern. Driving continuous development of Systemic Practice in social work alongside other theoretical frameworks and practice methodologies. In parts of the practice system holding a caseload of high complexity / high risk case.

Essential Requirements
Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England
Substantial experience in statutory social work practice with evidenced expertise in the area of extra familial harm / contextual safeguarding.
Advanced training in evidenced based approaches to assessment & intervention relating to extra familial harm.
Experience of delivering evidenced based interventions with children and families improving outcomes related to extra familial harm.
Building effective trusting relationships with children, families, and other professionals.
Ability to assess the needs of children, adults, and families holistically and analytically, in high risk and high complexity cases, applying the Assessment Framework and other relevant frameworks and tools.
Ability to make sound professional judgments (in cases of high risk / complexity).

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