Senior Practitioner Court Team (part of Safeguarding and Care Planning)
Focusing on the child, not forgetting you Salary: up to £52,327.00 per annum
In addition, you will receive £2000 annual retention payment, £2000 Golden Hello and other excellent benefits including a lease car
Location: Bromley Civic Centre/flexible working
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Bromley Children's Social Care has recently been awarded an Ofsted rating of "outstanding".
Bromley are seeking highly talented and ambitious registered Senior Practitioners to join us on their journey to excellence.
The Safeguarding and Care Planning Service works in partnership with other agencies such as Police, Health and Education, and aims to ensure children grow up with the best life chances and receive safe and consistent care.
The Court Team is a specialist team within the Safeguarding Service. The focus of the work is with children at significant risk of harm where intervention of the court is necessary to protect them. Many of these children become looked after by the Local Authority in the interim and subsequently may not be able to return to their parents. They may be permanently cared for elsewhere by living with either extended family, long term foster care or adoption under a Court Order.
The Court Team consists of a Team Manager and 6 Senior Practitioners.
This team works in partnership with the Bromley Children's Legal Team to ensure that children's cases that are presented to court are well prepared and timely.
The position requires recent court experience and the ideal candidate would be keen to join a team that specialises in court work within a safeguarding team.
The prospective candidate needs to:
- Be very well organised, have the ability to communicate effectively and articulate evidence in care proceedings.
- Write reports to a high standard, that are concise, evidence based for court and adoption panel (i.e Child Permanency and Adoption Placement Reports)
- Meet court timelines for submission of statements, care plans, and to effectively parallel plan for children considering all relevant options to secure permanent care at the earliest opportunity for the child.
- Undertake assessments (i.e parenting and together and apart assessments), plan appropriate intervention and work creatively with children and families who are in court proceedings
- Have a good understanding of safeguarding thresholds and ability to assess and analysis risks, including good knowledge of child development and attachment theories and permanency needs of children of all ages.
The Bromley Promise:
- Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker
- Dedicated time for reflective supervision
- Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days
- Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising four Social Workers
- Two-week protected induction programme
- Excellent Learning and development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker
- Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team
Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:
- Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance
- Merited pay scheme
- 30 days Annual Leave
- The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Excellent training and career development pathway
- Free Car Parking at Bromley Civic Centre
- The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance
- Relocation Allowance (up to £8,000) for successful candidates relocating from overseas or the outer southeast area
- A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.
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