Senior Practitioner – Families First – Cambridgeshire. Various locations available with countywide travel requirements, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
- A relocation package (eligibility applies)
- ARefer a Friend Schemewhere if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, well pay you an introduction fee of 350
- Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be
For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.
About the role
Are you an experienced child protection practitioner? Do you want the ability to use your skills to support the development of a new Families First model? Wed love to hear from you.
We have several Families First Senior Practitioner roles available across Cambridgeshire based within our Targeted Support teams. These new positionswill not case-hold or have line management responsibilities, allowing you to focus on providing expert social work advice to our Family Help Lead Practitioners.
The postholders will support all Family Help Managers including those from Targeted Support, Social Care and Lead Child Protection Practitioners to make decisions in relation to appropriate levels of need and response.
Roles could be based in Ely, Wisbech, Huntingdon or Cambridge but will all involve countywide travel.
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail please email Joanna Middleditch, Targeted Support Service Manager East Cambridgeshire, viajoanna.middleditch@Cambridgeshire.gov.uk to arrange a phone call or Teams meeting.
This is a rolling campaign and we check applications daily. Don’t wait to apply as we will close the advert once the positions have been filled!
Interviews will be held in person at New Shire Hall wherever possible.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this
About you
You are an innovative and reflective practitioner who is committed to continuous learning and service improvement. You have experience building strong relationships with children, families, and other professionals and can evidence proven ability to identify and respond to significant harm.
You must:
- Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
- Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently
This is a Senior Practitioner post, you must be able to demonstrate experience in complex case management, court proceedings, and providing informal support or supervision to others.
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.https://youtu.be/DDE1nplZttYVisit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers…