Senior Practitioner - Looked After Children
Social Care jobs, North East
| Job ref: | SCH71274SJ |
|---|---|
| Rate: | £24.00 to £30.00 per hour |
| Date posted: | 1 September 2010 |
| Position type: | Temporary |
| Start Date: | ASAP |
| Location: | North East |
| Sector: | Social Care |
Vacancy details
A Senior Practitioner is required to join a Looked After Children team in the Newcastle.
Working within the Looked After Children team, this Senior Practitioner will have the following responsibilities
- Maintaining a strategic oversight of the placements of the council’s Looked After Children, in order to maximize efficient use of current resources and establish future need.
- Establish and maintain arrangements for the efficient procurement of external placements for looked after children, maintaining an oversight of the cost of individual placements.
- Develop, maintain and operate systems for assessment, monitoring of placement quality, including but not limited to undertaking Reg 33 visits to the Council’s own residential homes.
- Assessment and monitoring visits to external placements, investigation of complaints about providers and making recommendations about the use of particular placements.
- Assist and deputise for the placement service manager and other senior practitioners in the discharge of their duties.
- Contribute to the progression of care plans, and to challenge established processes and behaviours where these impede the efficient and appropriate use of resources.
- Make a contribution to the council’s overall strategy for looked after children, developing and maintaining positive working relationships with internal and external partners in order to do so.
- Receive and assess all requests for placements for looked after children, allocating work within the team at a level appropriate to the complexity of the child’s needs.
- Maintain responsibility for identifying and procuring placements for those children with the most complex needs, and for the spot-purchasing of external placements.
- Attend and/or chair panels and other decision-making forums in relation to the work of the service.
The successful Senior Practitioner will need to hold a DipSW or equivalent. Candidates will need to be GSCC registered and hold a current CRB.
To discuss this role or any other Senior Practitioner jobs in Newcastle or in the Looked After Children field please contact the Social Care team at The Synergy Group on 0113 388 4200 or email your CV to socialcareleeds[at]synergygroup.co.uk
Working with The Synergy Group offers
- The most experienced Social Work recruitment team in the UK
- Access to the broadest selection of Social Work vacancies in the UK
- The choice of PAYE or limited company schemes
- Weekly payroll service
- Excellent rates of pay
- Personal service
The Synergy Group is a specialist recruiter of Social Work jobs, to view a full selection
of our current vacancies please visit synergygroup.co.uk
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