Senior Practitioner

Job Overview

Fraserburgh Children and Families Team is a brilliant team to work for, although a big and busy team everyone steps in and supports one another unconditionally emotionally or practically. Becoming Senior Practitioner in our team comes with many roles including sharing the role alongside the other Senior Practitioner within our team, supervising Family Support Workers as well as supporting the Team Managers.

You will have access to attend Senior Practitioner forums where you get to share your experience with fellow colleagues across other Children and Families Team and explore opportunities for enhancing our service as a whole.

• Provide a professional social work service to children, families, individuals and groups within current legislation, policies and procedures of Aberdeenshire Council through working in partnership with service users, other professionals and agencies within the wider community.
• Enhance the work of the team through supporting the Team Manager in terms of managing day to day operational business when required, supporting team members in case management through mentoring, consultation and direct supervision and promoting continuous service development.
• Demonstrate a commitment to quality service delivery through continuous improvement for the benefit of the Service and the organisation.
• Support the Team Managers and supervise Family Support Workers as part of the Senior Practitioner role.
• Attend Senior Practitioner forums to share experiences and explore opportunities for enhancing service.

• This post is regulated work with Children and/or Protected Adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007.
• The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.
• Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out of the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check.
• A confirmed offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
• This post has a minimum requirement of two references, one of these must be your current or most recent employer.

We welcome you to consider joining our team.