Senior Practitioner - Family Safeguarding

Job Title: Senior Practitioner, Family Safeguarding

Location: Dudley

Rate: £33.30

Contract: Available as Temporary and Permanent

Job Purpose:

• Contribute to the delivery of an effective children's social care service as part of a social work team, improving outcomes for children and young people.
• Manage caseloads dependent upon experience, grade of post and complexity of cases, utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs assessments, care planning, and child protection investigations.
• Carry out high quality assessments, using child-centred, community focused, and multiagency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships, and to secure the best outcomes for children and young people.
• Ensure children and young people are adequately protected in line with Dudley LSCB, departmental policy and procedures, and relevant legislation.

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