Senior Practitioner Out Of Hours Team

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Wigston Police Station LE18 1WX during weekends and home during week days

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: 43860 - 47829 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) Plus a 20% market premium on unsociable hours.

Working Hours:37 Hours (12:00am until 8:30am Monday to Thursday and 12:30am-8:30am on Friday)

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 5th February 2026

Interview Date(s): 12th February 2026

About the Role

This is a hybrid role and there is some scope to work flexibly which is balanced with meeting the service needs and demands. This role will cover the hours between 12:00am until 8:30am Monday to Thursday and 12:30am-8:30am on Friday. This post is subject to a 20% market premium on unsociable hours. This shift pattern could also adapt/ change in the future to meet service need.

You will have extensive experience of working with children and families ideally across a breadth of social work. It is essential you have substantial child protection experience. Due to the nature of the role the post holder will have theability to work autonomously and be confident making decisions with minimal support when responding to urgent calls and enquiries. This role also involves triaging referrals and making timely decisions.

In Leicestershire we have a fantastic package to provide our workers. This includes the option as a full-time worker to do hybrid working celebrating diversity with a range of events throughout the year recognition of our staff in annual Pride in Practice events fantastic learning and training opportunities enabling our staff to develop and progress within their roles and committed wellbeing support.

We are proud of our continuous improvement plan Achieving Excellence through Purposeful Practice which sets out our key values behaviours and ambitions. We have embedded the Signs of Safety approach throughout our services and this approach mirrors our values of Aspiration Being Curious and Collaboration. We are focused on working with families and the networks of family friends and professionals around children to work in collaboration to achieve shared goals.

We are committed to our vision of becoming a trauma informed responsive department where we believe we are stronger together. Our culture is one of partnership where we look for solutions and recognise the potential impact of trauma on the children and families we work with and on our staff. We will strive to create a safe compassionate healing environment demonstrated through relationships based on trust respect hope and empathy. We will achieve this through a spirit of curiosity by nurturing connections through relationships making a deliberate effort to know and understand people and by providing hope for growth and recovery.

We support and empower our staff to be the best that they can be. We will give you the support and resources that you need to work in collaboration with children and families.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity and police vetting 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:

• Be a qualified Social Worker holding a Social Work degree or equivalent e.g. CQSW DipSW (with specialism in childrens services) and be registered with Social Work England hold a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Extensive knowledge experience and application of social work legislation methodologies social care policies guidance procedures and case reviews. This includes demonstrating your experiences with regards to relevant policies and procedures applicable to an out of hours teamincluding S20/ S46 and PACE.
• Demonstrate the ability and experienceof supporting with the service performance and the learning and development of the team and individuals as well as acommitment to your continuous professional development.
• You must also understand and commitment to equality diversity and inclusion and demonstrate this in your practice with Children Young People Families and your peers.
• Understand and demonstrate experience of the importance of multi-agency working and the differing roles responsibilities remit and functions of other parts of the wider service and agencies.
• The ability to communicate clearly and accurately both orally and in writing with a wide range of people including representatives from other agencies and court completing reports and assessments to a high standard thus being a model of good practice.
• Proven ability to work creatively to manage family breakdowns/ and children and families in crisis experience of managing complex cases and the ability to recognise when cases need to be actioned Out of Hours

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:

Shellie Miskella - Team Manager

Telephone:

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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 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 Plus 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.

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