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Advanced Practitioner – Fostering Kinship Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Practitioner within the Fostering Kinship Team to work Full Time based in Southend.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £52,413per annum.

• To manage cases of highly sensitivity or complexity and to provide a focus of specialist advice and professional consultation.
• To recommend needs led assessments and interventions within strict criteria and policy.
• To provide and efficient and cost-effective assessment, intervention, and therapeutic service to young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed.
• To gather, investigate, evaluate and analyse all necessary information on assigned cases, demonstrating clarity of assessments, reliability of information, evidenced conclusions and realistic action plans.
• To develop practice which takes a holistic view of the Individual, locating them in both their immediate and extend social circles, and having a full regard to their education, social, recreational and health.
• To ensure that all case management complies with the statutory requirements and the council’s policies and procedures.
• To ensure that investigations, enquiries and assessments are completed to high-professional standards and that each case has in place current care plans, adequate recording, evidence of practice, reliable records and that all case records are fully maintained.
• To identify service enhancements and support the culture of continuous improvement.
• To prepare and submit written reports as and when required, including statements and care plans for care proceedings in the family proceeding, county and high courts.
• Where appropriate acting as the Duty Worker, responding to queues and issues on all cases currently being managed by the team.
• To support and develop a range of evidence-based preventative services for children and their families to allow them to be looked after in their birth families, wherever safe to do so.
• To deputise in the absence of the Service Manager, including the supervision of the contact function of the service.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner
role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact: This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two‑time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.