Are you a experienced Social Worker and ready to take the next step in your career? We're looking for a Senior Practitioner to join us in our Fenland Family Support and Safeguarding Team covering the Wisbech area. This role is an internal vacancy. Practitioners in the Family Support & Safeguarding team tell us how much they really value the supportive relationships they have with their colleagues and how flexibly everyone chips in to help one another. We manage a varied caseload of Child in Need, Children in need of Protection, Public Law Outline and care proceedings, focusing on children up to the age of 18. You will use a Motivational Interviewing approach where you will act in partnership with children and their families to achieve sustainable change and improved outcomes for children. This is an exciting and creative time to join us in Family Support and Safeguarding, and we would welcome applications from a diverse range of workers to enhance our existing workforce. The role is hybrid with a mix of home and office working. The office base is Awdry House in Wisbech.
Responsibilities
* Providing leadership in high complex cases which involve risk, complexity and safety of children, young people and families.
* Providing written and verbal reports for a variety of settings – including attendance at court – that are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence.
* Leading, guiding and directing Social Workers and Child Practitioners, supporting their performance and development, including supervision.
* Support in planning, allocation and review of cases.
* Support with the recruitment and induction of staff.
Benefits
* We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed benefits beyond the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage.
* A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
* 6 days of protected time each year to support maintaining your Continuous Professional Development.
* A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies).
* Scalable retention payments of up to £9,118 over a 3‑year period, starting after your first full year of employment.
* A Refer a Friend Scheme – if you refer another Social Worker who is subsequently employed by us, we will pay you an introduction fee of £350.
* Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) which will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network "IDEAL" and self‑organised peer support groups, help us foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
Qualifications
* Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration.
* Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
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