Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

The Senior Practitioner will be an experienced social worker playing a key role within teams to support high-quality service delivery. You will be supporting the Team Manager and colleagues, as well as working with families to assess their needs, determine a support plan and care package, and ensure the plan’s implementation. They will have a caseload including complex work, provide quality assurance, and help the team manager to coach less experienced colleagues. They will have opportunities to directly influence and promote the training and development of social workers and social work students in the department.

Responsibilities

Undertake assessments, determine care packages/support plans and manage a range of the most complex caseloads to maintain or improve the wellbeing of children and young people.
Provide leadership and professional guidance to colleagues.
Develop, train, and track the development of less experienced social workers.
Supervise less experienced social workers and practitioners to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.
Lead on complex cases and key meetings, including case reviews and core group meetings.
Collect and analyse information and present findings at strategic meetings.
Manage team duty rotas and reflective group supervisions.

Requirements

Have completed a degree, apprenticeship or graduate training scheme in social work.
Be registered with Social Work England.
Ideally have at least 3 years’ experience as a qualified child and family Social Worker.
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks.
Satisfactory declaration of interest.
Satisfactory DBS check; Enhanced.
Continued professional body registration.
Fluent English speaking ability for public-facing roles.

Skills

Assessment
Care planning
Caseload management
Leadership
Professional guidance
Training and development
Supervision
Complex case management
Information analysis
Presentation
Duty rota management
Reflective supervision

Location

London

Work Type

Permanent
Full Time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Degree
Apprenticeship
Graduate training scheme in social work

Salary/Compensations

£49,056 – £55,323

Benefits

Retention Bonus: Up to £3000 (terms & conditions apply)
Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard accreditation

About the Company

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a welcoming and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have tight-knit and diverse communities.
Our work is always resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded: we’re a borough focused on meeting and exceeding 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 proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace wellbeing, skills, progression and diversity.

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 four 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.
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.