Senior Practitioner

Role Responsibility

There is a vacancy in the dynamic, vibrant Children in Care Team in Ashford.  This is an opportunity to join a successful team lead by an exceptionally supportive Team Manager where you have an opportunity to make a real difference to the children we look after. 

As a Senior Practitioner you will be working within the court arena, undertaking parenting and SGO assessments, and ensuring children achieve their permanence as soon as possible.    You will be an integral part of the team supporting the Team manager and other workers.  You will have the opportunity to undertake direct work with children and be creative in your planning.  You will work with a range of children 0-18 including our unaccompanied asylum seeking children. 

This is a service that prides itself of engagement and participation with children and includes a calendar of events all year where we come together as staff with our children to have fun and enrich their care experience.  You will have excellent support to develop and reach your potential. 

We are looking for a candidate that is flexible, a good communicator, able to produce written reports to a high standard, work well with partner agencies and who has a passion for providing an outstanding service to the children we are responsible for as their parent. 

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

For more information about the role, please contact Katie Ormerod on 03000 415131

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.