CSW - Senior Practitioner - Support and Safeguarding (Windsor & Maidenhead)

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified (Windsor & Maidenhead)
Location : Town Hall, Achieving for Children
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:15
Salary: £31.99

About the role
The Senior Practitioner – Pods main responsibility is to safeguard and promote the welfare of young people, giving due consideration to their race, culture, religion and linguistic background.
They will manage an agreed caseload of children and young people in compliance with casework objectives, statutory and departmental policy and procedural requirements, consistently maintaining the highest level of professional standards, including the most complex cases.
The Senior Practitioner will undertake direct social work responsibilities as an allocated worker to the children and young people assigned, investigating concerns regarding a child or young person’s safety or wellbeing, make an assessment of the risk and protective factors in the family and decide on the most appropriate course of action. They will complete longer-term work with families in order to meet identified needs and improve outcomes for children.
The Senior Practitioner will ensure that high quality reports are prepared for Court, they will support and prepare workers in the Court process, including giving evidence as required. The role will involve providing casework consultation to other social workers in the team as directed by the Team Leader or
Head of Safeguarding. This may also supervise students, trainees, less experienced professional team members, support staff or volunteers

Qualifications
● Educated to a degree level with a relevant professional qualification in social work.
● Active Social Work England registration and proven evidence of continuing professional
development.
Skills and experience
● Experience in leading a team, undertaking line management, performance management and change management.
● Knowledge of relevant theory that informs practice delivery.
● Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their
families. Advocating the voices of those we are working with.
● Proven ability to effectively use data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight and to inform own decision making.
● Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children or young people).
● Knowledge of statutory legislation (for example Children’s Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children’s services and your role.
● Commitment to own personal and professional development and to developing and coaching others, championing and supporting continuous professional development within the team.
● Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with
colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them.
Personal attributes
● A passion for Achieving for Children’s vision, mission and values (trust, value. respect) to support children and young people to live safe, happy, healthy and successful lives.
● Able to use a range of digital hardware or software to support your work effectively i.e. microsoft or Google software.
● Strong organisational abilities including: time management, creative-thinking, problem-solving and multitasking.
● Able to work flexibly and independently with limited management oversight.
● Personal determination, drive, energy and ambition to achieve challenging objectives, celebrate success and deliver excellent outcomes for children using a strength based approach.
● Commitment to resource-sharing and collaborative working within Achieving for Children and across organisational boundaries in the best interests of children and families.
● Good communication and interpersonal skills that are open, honest, persuasive and pragmatic, including excellent negotiation and influencing skills.