Practitioner

As a Senior Practitioner in the Intensive Fostering and Disability Short Break Team you will provide a key role in supporting foster families and the children they care for across the team but primarily within the Turnaround, Residential to Foster, and Resilience Fostering programmes. Main Responsibilities You will:

• Be required to support with the recruitment, retention, placement matching of children with disabilities / complex needs and young people who are moving from residential care into foster families.
• You will undertake a direct supervisory support role to foster carers and contribute to pre-placement assessments to ensure young people placed are safe whilst being supported and managed in a way that ensures the young person achieves positive outcomes during and beyond their placement experience.
• You will work directly with a range of multi-agency professionals to coordinate long and short-term placement needs
• You will have case management responsibility for complex cases and will co-work cases with less experienced staff.
• You will be available to offer advice, support and consultation to team members including the direct supervision of Family Practitioners.
• Promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies,
• Hold a caseload on a county wide basis.
  
  Be Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying experience, working with foster carers and children in care as well as demonstrating relevant experience in supervisory responsibility and team development
• Registered with Social Work England
• Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle
• A commitment to embedding restorative practice within your role and wider service
  
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