Senior Social Work Practitioner

Organisation:Leicestershire County Council

WorkLocation:Hinckley Hub Granville Road Hinckley LE10 0PP

WorkerCategory:Field Based Worker

Salary:43860 - 47829 (pro rata for part-time)

WorkingHours:37 hours per week

ContractType:Permanent

Closing Date:26 October 2025

Interview Date(s):06 November 2025

Right support at the right with the whole family to offer practical help building on strengths and community support to improve daily lifepositively impacting upon outcomes for children and young people.

Family Help offers intensive and timely family support for families on the continuum from Targeted Early Help to Child in Need.

Family Help focuses on strong and consistent professional relationships responding more quickly and intensively to families so that they get the right help at the right time. Building on workers capacity to listen understand and respond to trauma and supporting children and families to build strength resilience confidence and parenting capacity. By unlocking the potential of family and community networks we will support more children to stay safely at home and when this is not possible to remain with wider family and friends.

By supporting staff through regular reflective supervision ensuring positive training and career pathways staff embrace this more intensive way of working and remain in post longer providing our families with the professional consistency they need want and deserve.

Come and join us!

We have a Senior Practitioner vacancy in Hinckley and Bosworth who will support the Team Manager in ensuring that a high-quality Child in Need service is provided for children and their families.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see ourpolicy statement.

About You

We want a creative and supportive worker 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.

• 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. The worker must also be registered with Social Work England.
• Experienced level 3 social worker in a childrens social work team.
• Experience of working in: 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.

You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview 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. Thereforewherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstanceswhilst 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 mayinclude 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 theOur Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion please contact:

Katie Cooper Team Manager

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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 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 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 more information see theHow 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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