Adults Senior Practitioner|Transitions Team |East

• Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex
• Team: Transition Team
• Rate: Between £38 - £40 ph
• Contract: Locum / Full-time

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Practitioner Social Worker – Adults to join an established Adult Social Care team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a confident social work professional with strong experience in complex case management, safeguarding, supervision and risk assessment
, who is looking to take a lead role in supporting high-quality practice and service delivery.

As a Senior Practitioner, you will manage a complex and varied caseload while providing professional leadership, supervision and support to social workers and other practitioners.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing an allocated caseload involving complex needs, risk assessment, support planning, care commissioning and reviews
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• Working collaboratively with partner agencies, community organisations and other services to promote an integrated approach to adult social care.
• Identifying, assessing and appropriately escalating adult and child safeguarding concerns
  , working closely with relevant agencies.
• Applying relevant legislation, legal interventions, departmental policies and procedures to achieve positive, outcome-focused plans for adults, carers and families.
• Producing high-quality professional reports and providing evidence in court in relation to private and public proceedings where required.
• Taking a lead role in implementing local and national service developments and promoting evidence-based social work practice
  .
• Supporting the Practice Manager with staff development reviews, identifying training needs and contributing to induction programmes.
• Providing casework supervision, consultation, co-working and group supervision for social workers, other practitioners and students.
• Supporting effective caseload management through supervision, monitoring, review and constructive feedback.
• Providing supervision and oversight of Investigating Officers
  , including auditing and monitoring safeguarding investigations.
• Acting as a Safeguarding Investigating Manager when delegated by the Practice Manager or Operations Manager.
• Assessing and monitoring practitioners' competency to undertake safeguarding investigations.
• Taking a lead role in ensuring an effective and timely response to referrals, coordinating assessments, risk assessments, care planning and review processes.
• Keeping the Practice Manager appropriately informed of case planning and ensuring continuity of case management during periods of absence.

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 organizations throughout the UK
• Prompt and reliable payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• £500 referral fees

For more information, please contact Dylan at Tripod Partners on or