Senior Practitioner - Kinship Support
Senior Practitioner - Kinship Support
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Job Description
Children & Families
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field Based
Salary: per annum (prorata for parttime) Plus market premia of 2250
Working Hours:18.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 28th May 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
We have an exciting & a key role of a Senior Practitioner in the Kinship Support Team and we are looking for an experienced social worker with a DipSW CQSW CSS Degree Masters or equivalent qualifications and with experience of working in a Fostering Service and statutory social care.
About the Role
The role involves proving support to the social workers in the team and to the approved kinship foster carers with the children in their care. The main duties and responsibilities of the role include:
- Modelling good social work practice and encouraging continuing professional development of colleagues via coaching joint working and contributing to the development and delivery of training including the skills to foster course for prospective kinship foster carers.
- Preparing for and participating in reflective supervision and personal development reviews compliant with C&FS Supervision policy and procedures.
- Using your professional expertise to provide advice and support to a range of colleagues within C&FS and partner agencies to enhance positive outcomes for children and young people using a multiagency approach.
- Assisting the Team Manager in using performance information as part of a commitment to continuous service improvement
- Dealing with different daily challenges of kinship placements.
.A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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About You
Please refer to the below points when making your application giving examples as evidence of how you meet them.
To apply for this post you must have:
- Appropriate social work professional qualificationsuch as MA DipSW CQSW or equivalent.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Extensive and recent postqualification experience of working with children and families in a statutory setting including Safeguarding Court and Preproceeding work.
- In depth knowledge and ability to apply relevant policies appropriate legislation government guidance and best practice in all aspects of social work including LSCB procedures.
- Significant knowledge of the factors and influences which can impact on children achieving positive outcomes including child development attachment and neglect and parental factors such as substance misuse domestic abuse and mental health.
- Extensive knowledge of a range of relevant theories research serious case review findings and models of social work interventions and how these can be integrated into service delivery to enhance outcomes for children.
- Ability to undertake complex and evidenced based assessment in line with practice standards which are timely and child focused.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Fred Luneta Team Manager
Tel : 0
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on Apply Now. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
