Practice Supervisor
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16 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
3-months contract with a local authority
Job Purpose
- Provide highquality practice leadership and support within the Family Help service to ensure children young people and families receive timely needsled and effective support.
- Oversee and guide Lead Practitioners to deliver robust assessments effective family plans multiagency collaboration and evidencebased interventions.
- Contribute to strong case management quality assurance reflective supervision and continuous improvement within the team.
- Uphold the organisations values vision and safeguarding responsibilities ensuring practice that is childcentred relationshipbased and focused on positive change.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Practice Support
- Promote the service positively to colleagues partners and service users.
- Support the Team Manager in allocating work to Lead Practitioners and maintaining oversight of case management.
- Provide reflective supervision practice guidance and professional challenge to Lead Practitioners.
- Model and champion the Trusts practice framework ensuring it is embedded in everyday work.
Casework Oversight & Assessment
- Oversee targeted Early Help and Section 17 Family Assessments ensuring assessments are high quality needsled and strengthsbased.
- Support the development of multiagency Family Help plans and ensure robust review arrangements.
- Complete or contribute to assessments and plans as required.
- Visit children and families alongside or on behalf of Lead Practitioners when needed.
MultiAgency Working
- Support the establishment of Team Around the Family (TAF) arrangements to deliver coordinated support.
- Chair and facilitate multiagency meetings to implement and review support plans.
- Engage safeguarding partners when concerns about significant harm arise.
- Strengthen relationships with key agencies to support families in making sustainable positive changes.
Direct Work & ChildCentred Practice
- Support practitioners to build strong positive and trusting relationships with children and young people.
- Ensure childrens wishes feelings and lived experiences are central to assessments and plans.
- Promote Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) to encourage familyled solutions.
Recording Analysis & Quality Assurance
- Ensure all casework is recorded accurately promptly and to a high standard.
- Collect analyse and interpret information to inform decisionmaking and safeguarding actions.
- Support quality assurance through reflective case supervision evidencebased auditing and constructive feedback.
Professional Development & Reflective Practice
- Keep up to date with legislation policy changes guidance and best practice.
- Support team members in meeting professional development targets and regulatory requirements.
- Participate in supervision group reflection workshops team meetings training and appraisal processes.
Service Improvement & Strategic Contribution
- Contribute to practice development service planning and improvement initiatives.
- Ensure sustainability planning is embedded to build family resilience and reduce rereferrals.
- Undertake additional duties as required to meet operational needs.
- Work flexibly including outside normal office hours when necessary.
Experience Required
- Extensive experience working with vulnerable children and families supporting positive change.
- Experience applying professional social work practice in complex situations.
- Strong track record of multiagency partnership working to improve outcomes.
- Experience supervising supporting or mentoring students or colleagues.
Skills & Competencies
- Deep understanding of legislation statutory guidance and social work frameworks.
- Ability to analyse complex information assess risk and make sound timely decisions.
- Strong communication skills able to present clear and accurate information across audiences.
- Highquality recording skills with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to maintain resilience composure and professional judgment under pressure.
- Skilled in facilitating meetings reflective discussion and collaborative planning.
- Commitment to antidiscriminatory practice equality and cultural competence.
Qualifications
- Degree in Social Work or equivalent qualification.
- Registration with Social Work England.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Additional Information
- Enhanced childrens DBS check required.
- No direct line management responsibilities.
- Occasional work outside normal office hours may be required.
- We work on a Bi weekly payment schedule.
- The role closes on 27/04/2026 apply ASAP.
Required Skills:
Provide strong leadership to ensure the delivery of safe highquality services for children and families in line with legislation statutory guidance and local policies
