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About the Role

Reporting to the Permanence & Post Order Advanced Practitioner/Team manager, this role involves holding a caseload of assessments and/or support cases within the Permanence and Post Order Support Team. Key responsibilities include completing necessary assessments to a high standard within court timelines, safeguarding children and young people, and ensuring practice aligns with legislation and guidance. The role also requires attending Practice Support Group, providing professional advice, and maintaining accurate case records.

Responsibilities

• Exemplify expert and best practice in relation to assessment and/or support cases of varying complexity.
• Ensure relevant assessments (Viability/Connected Person/SGO) are completed to a high standard and within required timescales.
• Ensure assessments accurately identify needs and vary in complexity.
• Ensure practice complies with relevant legislation, regulations, and practice standards.
• Effectively manage/mitigate risks of varying complexity.
• Provide professional advice and other case-related guidance to team members.
• Regularly attend and contribute to Practice Support Group.
• Hold a caseload including kinship assessments and delivery of support services to Kinship carers.
• Carry out all duties with an awareness and understanding of safeguarding requirements within the area of responsibility.
• Demonstrate knowledge of relevant theories/models and incorporate these into professional practice, PSG discussion, and case-related guidance to others.
• Demonstrate critical knowledge of the range of social work-related theories and models in professional practice and case-related guidance (including PSG) to social workers and other professionals.
• Maintain accurate case-related records.

Requirements

• Professional registration with the relevant body (Social Work England).
• Experience of completing assessments.
• Knowledge of Fostering/Connected carers and Special Guardianship area.
• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks.
• Satisfactory declaration of interest.
• Satisfactory DBS check.
• Continued professional body registration.
• Ability to speak fluent English with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of the role.

Skills

• Sound judgement and decision making
• Safeguarding children and young people
• Achieving best possible outcomes
• Applying professional rigour to assessment and/or support cases
• Sharing knowledge, skills, and behaviours to develop the practice of others
• Professional advice and case-related guidance

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-Time
• Permanent

Salary/Compensations

• PO1 - PO4 £41,133 - £52,194
• Retention Bonus/ Market Supplement: £2000 per year in two instalments of £1000

Benefits

• The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.
• We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council.
• For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us

About the Company

• Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
• We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities.
• Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
• London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

Equal Opportunity

• Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff.
• The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population.
• We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace.
• The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.
• Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
• To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting.
• The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first.
• This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme.
• For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.