Don't be shy about letting us know and we'll do the digging!
Contact us
Ashberry Recruitment are currently recruiting for a number of Senior Practitioners for a Children’s Service within Wigan Council. These posts are for Senior Practitioner roles within a Children’s Child In Need / Child Protection Locality Team.
The service provides a borough wide response to children in need of help and protection and is responsible for the assessment of children and young people, ensuring that the right help and support is provided at the right time.
You will support the Practice Manager in leading a busy social work team, ensuring the provision of help and support, identifying those children in need of help or protection and ensuring a high quality intervention and outcome.
You will be a motivated and enthusiastic with supervisory experience in a statutory social care setting. You will have a knowledge and understanding of the associated childcare law and statutory guidance and the ability to ensure its application.
You will have the ability to lead, support and supervise a team of workers maintaining minimum standards and ensuring high quality assessment intervention and planning for children and young people who require statutory social care intervention. You will be resilient, adaptable and capable of working effectively with colleagues from other professional disciplines.
The service intervention is encompassed by The Deal; ensuring an asset and strength based approach to intervention, ensuring that families are central to interventions, supporting positive change. We also ensure the development of resilience within families, supporting their access to services within the community to meet needs and build confidence.
We would ask that applicants meet the following:-
Wigan Council offer an excellent hourly rate of £26.88 per hour for this role (Umbrella).
Contracts are full-time and offered for a minimum of 3 months initial.
Ashberry Recruitment work with the majority of local authorities within the North of England and Midlands. Our team of specialist Social Work Consultants are here to help you find your next contract and support you through your agency career.
Please contact Gavin should you like to discuss these vacancies further or should you wish to discuss any other QSW vacancies.