Senior Practitioner (Disabled Children’s Team)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO5
Salary: £49,083 – £52,116 per annum
Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 12th May 2024
Interview Date: Week commencing 20th or 27th May 2024

About Haringey

We are investing in creating a better borough for all our residents and bettering the lives of children and young people in Haringey is our first corporate priority. We are located in the north of the capital with a population of approximately 250,000 people and a growing population of 0-19-year-olds. We are a diverse and fast-changing borough and tomorrow’s leaders; artists and innovators are busy growing up here.
Haringey is transforming its services for children and young people, and have already made exciting, innovative changes as we strive for excellence in all we do.
In short, we’re a council with high ambitions; a place to work that is full of energy and focus. Our teams have passion, integrity and commitment, and people join us, do so as they see Haringey is a learning organisation, and the people that work here strive for continuous improvement in their practice, aiming high to ensure we provide outstanding outcomes for our children.
We offer a great place to develop a career that is yours to own.

About the Role

The role involves providing crucial support to the team manager in overseeing the team’s operations and cultivating expertise in all areas covered by the service. This includes actively contributing to policy development within the service remit. The emphasis is on developing and maintaining practice proficiency to ensure the team’s effective functioning. The incumbent is expected to manage a caseload of complex cases, demonstrating both experience and expertise in dealing with intricate practitioner input.
In addition to handling individual cases, the role extends to offering guidance, advice, and consultation on casework practices to fellow team members and other service collaborators. This collaborative approach fosters a culture of organizational learning and development, particularly in the context of partnership working. The overarching goal is to promote a dynamic environment where collective expertise is harnessed for the benefit of the team and the broader service.
Active participation in team and service management meetings is a key component of the role, highlighting the importance of effective communication and collaboration within the organizational structure. By attending these meetings, the individual contributes to decision-making processes, ensuring that insights from casework practice and service delivery inform broader strategic discussions. In summary, the role involves a combination of managerial support, caseload management, knowledge development, and collaborative engagement to contribute to the overall effectiveness and growth of the team and service.

About You

The ideal candidate will need to be a resilient and authoritative practitioner who places children and young people and their welfare at the heart of their practice. You will manage a number of complex cases, determining suitable thresholds in a timely manner and making recommendations about level of need and next steps in line with the Haringey Threshold guide. This will include liaising effectively and efficiently with both internal and external partners to ensure that children and young people are safe. Therefore, your written and verbal communication would need to be second to none and you would be used to providing high quality, evidence-based assessments.
We will also expect you to support your respective Team Manager and Deputy Team Manager in developing the team, e.g., supporting and mentoring ASYEs and less experienced colleagues, and helping to implement positive change and drive a high-performance culture in the team and service at large. In return, we will give you the time and support you need to make a difference. Alongside our generous learning and development offer, we offer a competitive salary package which includes a recruitment & retention payment and relocation offer (subject to eligibility, terms and conditions). We are actively working to reduce caseloads across the service and provide mobile working technology so that you spend more time with children and young people, doing what really matters.

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 of 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.