JOB-20241107-791d94d2 Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Family Support Team to work full time based in Milton Keynes. The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £47,573 per annum. Main duties: Provide the knowledge, skills and experience of a senior care professional to a Children's Social Care team by taking responsibility for complex cases, mentoring of staff and the provision of expert support, advice and guidance. To deliver effective social work assessment, care planning and interventions in the most demanding sensitive and complex cases to improve the safety, development and wellbeing of children/young people involved. To supervise the case work of social worker, social work assistants, student sand childcare professionals receive appropriate supervision and direction. Complex and contentious case management issues are resolved so that positive and timely action can be taken to address risks and meets demands, in conjunction with Deputy/Team Manager. Lead responsibility for an area of children's service development and contribute to partnership working across Children's Services and partners, where appropriate. To assist the team/deputy team manager in building a string and cohesive team and to be on call for emergencies within their team or other teams in the service. Participate in quality audit of the team's and other teams work, where relevant. To ensure the team are updated on current practice, development guidance, legislation and research. To develop and writes policy and procedures or the team/service as requested. Assist in the allocation, prioritisation and planning of caseloads, in conjunction with Deputy/Team Managers across the service. Responsibility for chairing professionals and strategic meetings and acting on behalf of the Deputy/Team Manager as appropriate across the service. Represent the Local Authority in come of the most complex public and private law proceedings which will involve oral evidence being given in court, writing court statements, care plans and complying with the direction as set out in court orders. Requirements of this role: A social Work Qualification or equivalent. Understanding of relevant legislation. Registered or eligible for registration. This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England). Contact: This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.