Senior Practitioner - Children Services

Caerphilly Children’s Services is investing in Senior Practitioners across our Locality Teams and we currently have vacancies in Bargoed, Caerphilly East, Rhymney and Risca.

If you have the right values, motivation, and commitment to work in a challenging, yet rewarding environment we want to hear from you.

Caerphilly Children's Services have developed their Strategy aimed at reducing the numbers of Children Looked After as set out by Welsh Government. As part of this initiative, we are seeking to recruit six new permanent Senior Practitioner to each of the Locality Teams.

Are you effective at building positive working relationships with good communication and IT skills? Do you have genuine passion and commitment to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families?

Do you want to work collaboratively to promote "what matters" with children and their families?

Does this sound like the right job for you?

If so we will provide you with the following:-

• Comprehensive induction.

• Training to promote your continued professional development.

• An embedded risk assessment model.

• Evidenced based and timely decision making.

• Regular supervision, annual appraisal and opportunities for reflective practice.

• Supportive and experienced Senior Practitioner colleagues and Team Manager.

• Visible and strong leadership from the Senior Management Team

The Teams undertake high quality assessments and planning for children and their families who require on going social services intervention. The teams cover both short and long term work including Children in Need of Care and Support, Safeguarding, Children Looked After and court work.

We are seeking to appoint dynamic, experienced and enthusiastic practitioners to become part of our progressive and creative teams.

The successful candidate will have an enhanced level of social work skills, expertise within child protection and court work and be able to promote and develop good standards of practice both personally and within the team.

The successful candidate will hold a more complex caseload, be able to offer support, mentoring and supervision to team members, monitor team performance, assist the Team Manager and deputise when required.

The post is advertised as a Grade 10 with an additional £3,441 annual market supplement, to be paid in 12 instalments alongside the salary.

View the Job Description and Person Specification click here

After reading the Job Description and Person Specification, if you would like to have an informal discussion about the role please contact Dave Thomas Service Manager on 01443 864799 or Carol Davies, Service Manager on 01443 864745 or email: Thomad5@caerphilly.gov.uk / daviec30@caerphilly.gov.uk

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

We are legally required to ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Successful applicants are required to provide appropriate documentation such as a birth certificate, passport or work permit in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

If you have any difficulty applying online, please contact webrecruitment@caerphilly.gov.uk for further information.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on all successful applicants. This will include an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Applicants must have a professional social work qualification and Social Care Wales registration (or able to transfer from another recognised body).

Caerphilly Children’s Services is investing in Senior Practitioners across our Locality Teams and we currently have vacancies in Bargoed, Caerphilly East, Rhymney and Risca.

If you have the right values, motivation, and commitment to work in a challenging, yet rewarding environment we want to hear from you.

Caerphilly Children's Services have developed their Strategy aimed at reducing the numbers of Children Looked After as set out by Welsh Government. As part of this initiative, we are seeking to recruit six new permanent Senior Practitioner to each of the Locality Teams.

Are you effective at building positive working relationships with good communication and IT skills? Do you have genuine passion and commitment to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families?

Do you want to work collaboratively to promote "what matters" with children and their families?

Does this sound like the right job for you?

If so we will provide you with the following:-

• Comprehensive induction.

• Training to promote your continued professional development.

• An embedded risk assessment model.

• Evidenced based and timely decision making.

• Regular supervision, annual appraisal and opportunities for reflective practice.

• Supportive and experienced Senior Practitioner colleagues and Team Manager.

• Visible and strong leadership from the Senior Management Team

The Teams undertake high quality assessments and planning for children and their families who require on going social services intervention. The teams cover both short and long term work including Children in Need of Care and Support, Safeguarding, Children Looked After and court work.

We are seeking to appoint dynamic, experienced and enthusiastic practitioners to become part of our progressive and creative teams.

The successful candidate will have an enhanced level of social work skills, expertise within child protection and court work and be able to promote and develop good standards of practice both personally and within the team.

The successful candidate will hold a more complex caseload, be able to offer support, mentoring and supervision to team members, monitor team performance, assist the Team Manager and deputise when required.

The post is advertised as a Grade 10 with an additional £3,441 annual market supplement, to be paid in 12 instalments alongside the salary.

View the Job Description and Person Specification click here

After reading the Job Description and Person Specification, if you would like to have an informal discussion about the role please contact Dave Thomas Service Manager on 01443 864799 or Carol Davies, Service Manager on 01443 864745 or email: Thomad5@caerphilly.gov.uk / daviec30@caerphilly.gov.uk

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

We are legally required to ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Successful applicants are required to provide appropriate documentation such as a birth certificate, passport or work permit in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

If you have any difficulty applying online, please contact webrecruitment@caerphilly.gov.uk for further information.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on all successful applicants. This will include an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Applicants must have a professional social work qualification and Social Care Wales registration (or able to transfer from another recognised body).