Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding (INTERNAL ONLY )
Senior Practitioner - Safeguarding (INTERNAL ONLY )
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Loughborough Victoria and Albert Hub 2 Victoria St Loughborough LE11 2EN .
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: 42498 - 46344 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) plus market premia 2250
Working Hours:37 Hours
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 26-June 2025
Interview Date(s): 14th July 2025
Come and join us!
We have vacancy for a Senior Practitioner in Loughborough family safeguarding team Pod A based at Victoria and Albert Hub. If successful you will support the Team Managers in ensuring that high-quality services are provided for local children and their families.
About the Role
The right support at the right time working with the whole family network to promote positive attachments in a safe and stable family timely expert safeguarding and legal interventions where this is proportionate.
Family Safeguarding is the specialist service for children and young people at risk or experiencing significant harm and therefore in need of safeguarding within Leicestershire. Building on the robust practice already in place learning from the national reviews positive OFSTED and judicial feedback this service is evolving into a more specialist child protection and court work service. Family Safeguarding is being structured to allow the workforce to refine and develop their safeguarding skills concentrating team expertise to enable us to support families to achieve change where possible and to skilfully use PLO pre-proceedings and court proceedings to achieve best outcomes for enhanced specialisation of the service will facilitate improved PLO work reducing delay for our most vulnerable children and young people.
Deploying our skilled and experienced workforce of team managers agency and permanent senior practitioners and social workers support and assessment workers and support workerswe will build on their high levels of skills and experience to focus on delivering excellent safeguarding and court facing services. You will support the team manager with running POD meetings and other actions as they arise
Family Safeguarding will offer support to children and families who are experiencing very high levels of need and risk offering tailored and proportionate support to help children to have stable attachments and to live in safe and stable environments.
The central themes of relationship-based and trauma-informed practice are embodied in the vision for Family Safeguarding and as a learning organisation we will continue to collect and reflect on the evidence we have for what works well and what could be even better continually improving our practice with and for the most vulnerable in our community.
Building on our strong Signs of Safety framework we will enhance our expertise in Family Safeguarding through an improved training offer enhanced supervision covering reflective case personal and group supervision supporting practitioners to enhance their relationship-based interventions partnership working evidencing and analysing the complex situations they face. Managers will be supported to offer increased evidence-based analysis as well as collegiate and supervisory challenge capabilities.
Leicestershires diverse community is served by an equally diverse workforce and culturally competent practice is a key strand of Leicestershires ability to achieve positive professional relationships that enable our clientele to achieve the positive changes needed to ensure best outcomes for children
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
To apply for this post you must respond to and evidence the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1000 words.
We want creative experienced and supportive workers who will provide intensive and focused support to families in their homes. Developing effective relationships and using strengths-based and trauma-informed approaches will help to motivate and encourage behaviour change leading to positive differences in childrens lives.
To apply for this post you must have:
- Degree in Social Work approved by the Social Work England (SWE) or equivalent social work qualification ie Certificate of Qualification in Social Work or Diploma in Social Work. and must also be registered with Social Work England
- Experienced level 3 social worker in a childrens social work team.
- Experience of working in a range of settings including access/duty/intake children in need child protection care proceedings safeguarding and looked-after children work.
- Experience of undertaking Section 47 enquiries.
- Experience of supervising social work students.
- Experience of using performance indicators to monitor and improve performance.
- Able to analyse information to reach sound decisions often under pressure and take responsibility for their outcome and regular reporting to the Team manager
All applicants must have a full valid driving licence
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
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 term-time working part-time 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:
Geraldine Parkinson
Telephone:
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 the apply button. 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.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Intern
