Senior Practitioner – Children with Disabilities

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced and resilient Senior Practitioner to join its client' Children with Disabilities team in Hereford. As the council continues its Restorative Journey of Improvement, you will play a pivotal role in delivering consistent, relationship-based practice for children with complex needs and their families.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will,

• Team Supervision: Provide professional support and specific supervisory responsibility for Social Workers and other staff within the Directorate and partner agencies.
• Full-Journey Caseload: Manage a complex caseload that follows the child’s entire journey, including assessment work, child protection, and court work.
• Specialist Assessments: Complete specialist assessments, including Short Break assessments, ensuring that the unique needs of children with disabilities are identified and met.
• Relationship-Based Practice: Act as a lead professional to ensure consistency for families, fostering long-term, trust-based relationships.
• Service Improvement: Contribute actively to the local authority’s improvement journey, helping to shape a service that delivers the best possible outcomes for vulnerable young people.
• Reporting: Produce high-quality, analytical reports for court and statutory reviews.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Social Work England registration and a recognized qualification (DipSW, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent).
• Experience Requirement: A minimum of 3 years of post-qualified experience within statutory social care.
• CWD Expertise: Significant experience working with children with disabilities, including knowledge of the specific legislative frameworks involved.
• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to supervise staff and provide professional guidance to a multi-agency network.
• Analytical Skills: Honed skills in assessment and the ability to manage high-complexity cases independently.

Working Pattern & Benefits:

• Work Pattern: Flexible hybrid arrangements to be agreed upon with management.
• Business Mileage: Reimbursed at 45p per mile.
• Accommodation Allowance: Up to £150 per week available for candidates commuting from outside the local area.
• Office Base: Plough Lane, Hereford, HR4 0LE.

Our Client's Commitment:

• Restorative Improvement: Join a service dedicated to meaningful change and the implementation of a restorative practice model.
• Consistency of Care: We aim for children to have the same social worker throughout their journey to ensure stability and safety.

Why Liquid Personnel?

•  Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

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 by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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