Our client Warrington Borough Council is looking for a senior Practitioner to join their CWD team. To provide a statutory social work service to children and families working within local and national guidance and legislation, within our Children with Disabilities Team. To embed and adopt our systemic model of practice rooted in relational work with families, which emphasizes people's relationships as key to understanding their experiences. Use evidence based interventions to instigate change to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Children, young people and their families/carers

Conference and Review Managers, Team and Service Managers, staff with particular responsibility for a service area e.g. legal officers, fostering, adoption

Partners in other Divisions within the Directorate.

Partners in other Council Directorates, particularly legal services, housing advice

Partners in Health Trusts, particularly those with responsibilities in working with children and families such as midwives, health visitors, named nurses, etc.

Partners in criminal justice agencies such as the Police Service, Probation Area, and Youth Offending Team

Partners in voluntary sector services, particularly those services that have contractual relationships with the Division

Leadership team of Families & Wellbeing, Director of Children's Services, Operational Directors, Heads of Service and other Senior Officers within the Council

KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Be curious and ask purposeful questions, with a focus on the root causes of the child and families difficulties

Work alongside families helping them to solve problems and create change for themselves

Approach families with empathy, compassion and creativity using relationships for positive change

Be respectful and think about the situation from the child and families perspective taking a whole family system approach

Intervene in a timely way and act decisively to achieve permanence for all children

Be able to reflect and use critical thinking to evaluate and analyse the needs of the child and the family's capacity to change / meet the child's needs

Use a range of direct work approaches to elicit the views of children and families, whose voices are heard and responded to

Communicate clearly and sensitively with children of different ages and abilities, their families.

Build skilful and influential working relationships with other professionals and agencies

Make good use of supervision to reflect on practice, planning and decision making skills

Understand your legal and statutory responsibilities and execute these in children's best interests

Take appropriate responsibility for your own conduct, practice and learning, maintaining an up-to-date and accurate record of activities in line with requirements of the social work regulator

Operate successfully in a wide range of organisational contexts complying with departmental policies and procedures

Help keep children safe and improve welfare and outcomes for children and families

Respond to referrals and contacts received from a range of sources

For the £38 rate we would be looking for more of a senior practitioner role whereby the person would need to be experienced and able to mentor and support less experienced members of the team. This could include attending meetings on the managers behalf on occasion and possibly supervising a member/s of the team.