Consultant Practitioner - Young Croydon - Grade 15 Croydon, England
Job description
Consultant Practitioner - Young Croydon
Grade / Salary: Grade 15; £49,890 - £51,903 + £3,000 welcome payment
Hours of work: 36 per week / Monday – Friday
Contract type: Permanent
“Have you got the enthusiasm and drive to lead exemplary practice for children and families supporting the needs of our community?”
Job Purpose
These are specialist roles focused on preventing and protecting children and young people from exploitation in all forms. We have created three new roles to work alongside case holding social workers in our Family Assessment Service: Social Work with Families and Children in Care & Young People’s 16+ Services.
The Consultant Practitioner would be responsible for supporting practice development via leadership of elements of casework, individual and group coaching, reflective supervision’ quality assurance and workshops in the specific area of expertise.
The post holder would be required to directly support the delivery, and contribute to the delivery of, positive safety and well-being outcomes for children in need and their families, where extra familial arm is a key concern.
Driving continuous development of Systemic Practice in social work alongside other theoretical frameworks and practice methodologies.
In parts of the practice system holding a small caseload of high complexity / high risk cases
Benefits of Working With Us
- Highly competitive salary up to £51,903 plus a welcome payment of £3,000
- A pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 20%
- 31 days annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays
- Accredited Systemic Practice and Supervision training.
- A range of CPD opportunities
- Investment into your staff well-being
- Good management support for practitioners, regular supervision, group supervision led by systemic therapists and access to a clinical therapist to support your work directly.
- Hybrid working policy enabling work from home and flexible working approaches to support your work-life balance.
- The council promotes a hybrid working where the role allows plus a high-quality office base from where direct work is delivered from.
Why Join Us
In Croydon, our Children's Services has an established Systemic Practice model, experienced leaders, and high support for practitioners. Croydon people and staff are diverse, and we celebrate difference through focus on anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice. We are committed to delivering excellent social work practice and services to our children and families.
As well as this we also offer the following:
- Our teams consist of experienced Social Workers at various levels
- Join a highly diverse workforce
- Reflective supervision is actively promoted and supported.
- The ethos at Croydon is very much about working together to make positive change
- Caseloads of Social Workers are very manageable enabling managers to know children well & ensure high standards of practice
- You will join an established team who can help you settle in and offer their expertise
About You
- We are looking for Consultant Practitioners, who also are / have the follow:
- Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England
- Substantial experience in statutory social work practice with evidenced expertise in the are of extra familial harm / contextual safeguarding.
- Foundation level systemic practice qualification (desirable)
- Practice Educator or Practice Teacher qualification (desirable)
- Advanced training in evidenced based approaches to assessment & intervention relating to extra familial harm.
- Experience of delivering evidenced based interventions with children and families improving outcomes related to extra familial harm.
- Building effective trusting relationships with children, families, and other professionals.
- Ability to assess the needs of children, adults, and families holistically and analytically, in high risk and high complexity cases, applying the Assessment Framework and other relevant frameworks and tools.
- To make sound professional judgments (in cases of high risk / complexity).
Recruitment and Selection Timeline
Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Statement
Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. The Successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check
