Senior Practitioner

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO5 £50,574 – £53,607 per annum + £2,050 Market Supplement
Interview: w/c 17th March 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 2nd March 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

You will be required to hold a small caseload of complex cases and provide case management, guidance, support and expert advice to social care staff.

You will need to provide professional supervision for social care staff including undertaking regular case file audits, and to identify continuing professional development and training needs of the staff working with the Team Manager to meet these needs.

Undertake emergency and other assessments of needs, risks and options for adults with the most complex/high risk care needs and/or circumstances, in accordance with legislative requirements, all relevant policies and procedures and agreed performance targets.

You will need to undertake Safeguarding Enquiries under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014 and carry out the Safeguarding Adults Manager role and assist the Team Manager in leading, setting and implementing a performance management framework and ambitious service performance targets, practice, standards and competences in the team.

You need experience of Transition to Adulthood work and to be willing to lead in an area of practice.

The team consists of social workers, reviewing officers and social work officers. We work jointly with health colleagues who provide clinical support across the 3 localities. This vacancy is in the East Locality which covers the east of the borough of Haringey.

About you

You will need a Bsc or Masters in Social Work and have experience of working within an integrated team is desirable. Supervisory experience needed as will be required to line manage several members of staff and you will need to be willing to work under pressure and to have a holistic approach.

You will need the ability to respond to complaints and deal with members enquiries and have the ability to write clear and accurate reports and respond to Freedom of Information requests. Proficiency in the use of IT and data protection legislation. 

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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