Advanced Practitioner - Child Protection - Leeds - £37

Advanced Practitioner
Team: Child Protection
Location: Leeds
Rate: £37

Details: We are looking for an experienced social worker who is able to manage a caseload comprising of Child and Family Assessments, Child in Need, Child Protection, Child Care Proceedings until permanence. This caseload will have a level of complexity and lead worker responsibilities working alongside other social workers, it will not have supervisory / line manager responsibilities. Social workers should be able to practice restoratively with child and families and promote family led decisions to manage risk and meet support needs.

Applicants must demonstrate excellent relational work with children and families and be able to engage children through direct work and child centred practice. Organisation skills and ability to meet competing demands are required to ensure practice standards, good quality and practice and performance. The post requires workers to have good analytical assessment skills and with high quality written work. Social workers will need to work as part of a busy but supportive team and share their knowledge and skills to promote the learning culture. Applicants must be able to drive and have use of a car.

Hours: 37 hours per week Monday to Thursday 8.30 - 5pm and 8:30-4.30pm on a Friday. Must be office based for duty but hybrid working is negotiable dependent on the needs of the team (due to the relational approach of the organisation, it is envisaged this will be office based on duty weeks and one WFH home day/compressed hours on non-duty). The office is based at Deacon House, LS14.

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Ashberry Recruitment would ask that applicants meet the following:

• Enhanced and in date DBS certificate.
• Excellent communication skills and be able to make good decisions based on information available.
• Possess knowledge of service needs.
• Competent IT skills and be able to navigate electronic file/recording systems.
• Have a flexible approach to work and working hours when the need arises

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