Senior Practitioner Family Support and Safeguarding Team

Are you a experienced Social Worker and ready to take the next step in your career? We're looking for a Senior Practitioner to join us in our Cambridge City Family Support and Safeguarding Team.

Practitioners in the Family Support & Safeguarding team tell us how much they really value the supportive relationships they have with their colleagues and how flexibly everyone chips in to help one another.

We manage a varied caseload of Child in Need, Children in Need of Protection, Public Law Outline and care proceedings, focusing on children up to the age of 18. We use a Motivational Interviewing approach where you will act in partnership with children and their families to achieve sustainable change and improved outcomes for children.

This is an exciting and creative time to join us in Family Support and Safeguarding, and we would welcome applications from a diverse range of workers to enhance our existing workforce. The role is hybrid with a mix of home and office working. The office base is Fawcett House in Trumpington, Cambridge.

If this sounds like an environment where you would thrive, we would love to hear from you! For more information, call Nathalie on or email .

Interviews will be held week commencing 2nd March 2026

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing
  , both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
• A relocation package (eligibility applies)
• Scalable retention payments of up to £9,118 over a 3 year period, starting after your first full year of employment
• A
  Refer a Friend Scheme
  where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we'll pay you an introduction fee of £350
• Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be

For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.

Day-to-day responsibilities of a Senior Practitioner in Family Support and Safeguarding include:

• Providing leadership in high complex cases which involve risk, complexity and safety of children, young people and families.
• Providing written and verbal reports for a variety of settings - including for attendance at court - that are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence.
• Leading, guiding and directing
  
  Social Workers and Child Practitioners, supporting with their performance and development, including supervision.
• Support in planning, allocation and review of cases.
• Support with the recruitment and induction of staff.

We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

You must:

• Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
• Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently

This is a Senior Practitioner post, you must be able to demonstrate experience in complex case management, court proceedings, and providing informal support or supervision to others.

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

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