Advanced Practitioner - Assessment (Children's)

London Borough of Havering

Contract: Permanent

Grade 9- Advanced Practitioner £51,093 - 55,155pa with an additional Market Supplement (MS) of £4,000

Message from the Director

Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of children, young people, and families? Do you have a strong desire to be part of a transformative journey that will shape the future of Havering’s community? If so, we invite you to join us in our mission to elevate our local authority's Children's Social Care Services, situated within our Starting Well Department.

Following our recent inadequate Ofsted inspection, we are embarking on an improvement journey where we aim to re-establish and reinvigorate great practice across all our services delivered in Havering. As part of this journey, we are seeking dedicated and enthusiastic social care practitioners ready to make a meaningful difference, driven by a genuine desire to advocate for children, promote their well-being, and who are not afraid to take on the challenge of working for a local authority who have been inspected by Ofsted as inadequate.

In return, we want to offer you the opportunity to develop your skills through our dedicated 10 days of learning a year offer and access to our very own Social Care Academy and Systemic offer. We are committed to creating an environment where every child receives the best possible support and care, and all staff are supported to thrive and excel in safe, supported, and nurturing environments.

Our Senior leaders have worked on an improvement plan, and if you are ready to embrace this challenge and play a pivotal role in shaping our journey, we encourage you to apply.

About the role

The London Borough of Havering is looking to recruit Advanced Practitioners - Assessments (Children’s) to contribute to the delivery of an effective children’s social care service as part of a social work team, improving outcomes for children and young people, and manage caseloads dependent upon experience, grade of post and complexity of cases, utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs and risk assessments, care planning and child protection investigations.

If successful in your application for the role of Advanced Practitioner - Assessment (Children’s), London Borough of Havering, you will:

Directly manage and supervise a small number of qualified and non-social work staff.
Must have a minimum of 2 years of fostering experience (corporate parenting).
Manage a caseload of complex and challenging cases.
Support team manager in maintaining and developing high professional standards across the team.
Have specialist knowledge of an area of social work practice with children and families that can be used across the service.
Take responsibility for developing skills, expertise and knowledge for a wide range of practice issues and to provide consultation, coaching and mentoring within the team.
Support team development and recruitment processes.

Please see Job Profile here

We promote a hybrid model of working for our social care staff, with a flexible approach involving working from our town hall campus/hubs. In this role, you are expected to work from our town hall campus when required. In addition, we also encourage a flexible approach to team building opportunities.

As one of the greenest boroughs in London, resourcefulness is in our nature. We don’t wait to be told; we take the initiative. There are many opportunities to progress here, and if you seize them, we’ll support you all the way. Choose Havering and see the difference you’ll make to the people that live, work and learn here.

The London Borough of Havering has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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