Senior Practitioner

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO5 £50,574 – £53,607 per annum
Interview: w/c 30th June 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 22rd June 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

We seek a confident and experienced Senior Practitioner to join our Adult Safeguarding Team, where you will play a key role in managing complex safeguarding enquiries under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014. You will lead on high-risk cases involving self-neglect, abuse, and multi-agency coordination while providing professional guidance to colleagues and ensuring that Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) is embedded in all practices. The ideal candidate will be registered with Social Work England, have at least two years of experience in a senior social work role, and possess a strong background in supervising staff and promoting person-centred, legally compliant safeguarding practices. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

About you

In this role, you will work closely with the Team Manager to support staff development, contribute to case audits, and lead reflective safeguarding discussions. You will also participate in the duty rota, help manage the safeguarding inbox, and offer oversight on complex cases to ensure timely and proportionate responses. Strong communication, leadership, and decision-making skills are essential.

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.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk