Senior Practitioner- Adult Assessment & Intake team

Posted 15 August 2018
Salary £28 - £32 per hour
LocationSouth East London
Job type Temporary
Discipline Social Care
ReferenceLORNA_1534328109
Contact NameLorna Burner

Job description

This role is for a Practitioner Manager for the Adult Access team.

  • The Assessment and Intake Team is looking for an experienced Social Work Senior Practitioner, who has sound experience in managing social work staff.
  • Successful candidate to have in depth experience in safeguarding, Best Interest and Mental Capacity Assessments, court cases.
  • Excellent communication skills, IT skills and report writing skills are required.
  • Successful candidate to be familiar with fast paced duty team and extensive work experience in Older Person and Physical Disability Teams.
  • The successful candidate manages a group of social workers, assistant practitioners (OT and SW) and does work part of a Rota in their 'Assessment and Intake' Team and 'Contact' Team alongside other Senior Practitioners.
  • As part of this role supervision, performance management and cooperative and motivated approach to service development is essential.
  • Within the role the candidate has some oversight and delegates incoming referrals in the Contact Team, provides advice to customer service officers for signposting and fact finding.
  • The post reports to 2 Team managers in the Assessment and Intake Team.

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV .