Senior Practitioner - Youth Justice Service

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Youth Justice Team to work full time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £49,890 per annum.

Main duties:

* To provide direct line management to a team of youth justice support workers with specific areas of responsibility ensuring effective service delivery and high levels of performance.

* To lead on the development of specialist interventions across the youth justice service in conjunction with partner agencies.

* To model high quality professional behaviour and to develop and promote notions of authoritative practice within the service.

* To carry a small, highly complex caseload of young people and families subject to formal youth justice disposals.

* To undertake regular quality assurance processes in relation to case work and other youth justice areas of practice.

* To undertake duty manager responsibilities on a rota basis.

* To maintain accurate and up to date electronic case records in line with Departmental policies and procedures.

* To offer case advice, mentoring, coaching and guidance to others in the service as required including co-working, joint visiting, assistance with assessment, planning and delivery processes and court reports.

* To support the development of a service consistent with models of partnership working with other agencies and children and their families and to work with an emphasis on reducing first time entrants, reoffending and the use of custody.

* To ensure that protection and safeguarding concerns are central to all youth justice practice and service development initiatives.

* To take responsibility for your personal professional development by maintaining and developing relevant skills and knowledge of current legislation, policy and social work practice through self direct learning and via formal PQ route.

* To work with the Head of Service, Service and Team Managers in managing the development of the service ensuring it continues to improve and responds to changing need.

* To undertake any other temporary duties consistent with the basic duties and/or objectives of the post.

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.