Senior Child Protection Practitioner

Senior Child Protection Practitioner - Gloucestershire County Council

Location: Shire Hall, GL1 2TG

Pay/Salary: up to £50 per hour

Office Working: 3 Days per week

Contract: Locum

We are currently working with Gloucestershire County Council to find an experienced Child Protection Practitioner for their locality teams in Children’s Services. With a stable management team and a GOOD Ofsted, Gloucestershire are looking for someone with solid experience to be able to pick up a caseload and support their service.

Duties

Oversee the quality and impact of the child protection response across the locality

Report to the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team Manager, leading day-to-day delivery

Promote consistently strong, family-led and child-centred practice

Line managing Lead CP Practitioners

Provide matrix management for key partner agency leads

Support complex safeguarding decision to ensure work is allocated to progress cases effectively

Hold a small caseload to model exemplary social work, and use supervision, reflective discussion, workshops and case mapping to develop practitioners 

Using performance information, audit findings and local needs analysis to identify demand, address drift or delay

What you need

Social Work Qualification

Social Work England registration

Enhanced DBS (provided by us)

Why use us?

At Sheldon Phillips, you are not just a number on a board, you are someone we get to know, creating a personal job search that is as individual as you are. Our expert team are trained to ensure that your needs are met, our compliance procedures are quick and efficient, while making sure you find the job you really want.

If you are interested in this Social Work role in Gloucestershire, give Emily Cooper a call on (phone number removed) or email