Advanced Practitioner| Early​/Front Door Team

Advanced Practitioner needed for Early Help / Front Door team in Hounslow, paying £41ph!

• Team: Children's Services
• Role: Qualified Social Worker
• Rate: £41ph

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Practitioner to join our Early Help / Front Door Team.

This role is ideal for an experienced Senior Social Worker who is ready to take the next step in their career by combining high-quality practice with leadership and supervision responsibilities. You'll play a key role in supporting frontline practitioners, making effective threshold decisions, and ensuring children and families receive the right support at the right time.

As an Advanced Practitioner, you will:

• Provide supervision and professional support to 2–3 Family Support Practitioners (FSPs).
• Support the management of the daily duty function while maintaining your own workload.
• Make informed threshold decisions for children and families accessing Early Help and statutory services.
• Assess eligibility for Section 17 support, including cases involving homelessness and financial assistance.
• Undertake and oversee Human Rights Assessments
  , ensuring lawful and proportionate decision-making where families have exhausted all appeal rights.
• Contribute to decision-making within the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), ensuring appropriate progression of contacts.
• Build strong working relationships with Children's Services, Housing, and partner agencies.
• Attend daily multi-agency meetings relating to residents in Hounslow House and provide case consultations to colleagues across the council.
• Model best practice and provide guidance to practitioners, students, and volunteers.

To be considered for this opportunity, you must have:

• Current Social Work England registration and a recognised Social Work qualification.
• A minimum of 3 years' post-qualifying experience as a Senior Social Worker within Children's Services.
• Strong knowledge of threshold decision-making
  , including Section 17 assessments, homelessness, financial support, and safeguarding processes.
• Experience supervising frontline practitioners, students, and/or volunteers, providing regular supervision and professional support.
• The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, balancing duty responsibilities with case management.
• Excellent communication, decision-making, and relationship-building skills.

Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:

• Your own dedicated specialist consultant
• Access to the widest variety of jobs across 150 authorities and private organisations throughout the UK
• Prompt and reliable payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• £500 referral fees