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Connect2Kent recruit exclusively for Kent County Council. We recruit for a range of Social Work position's both Locum and Permanent.

Kent County Council are Ofsted rated as 'Outstanding'. We are currently recruiting for a Senior Social Worker to join the Children In Care Team Covering Dartford, Swanley and Surrounding areas. Previous experience is required working in Children In Care.

Main duties and responsibilities:

Manage a caseload of complex cases involving high levels of risk and needs to a high standard to ensure resources are utilised effectively

• Provide a high quality resource of professional social work knowledge and expertise to a team of Social Workers, to include student supervision, chairing complex meetings, assisted fieldwork, attendance in court, case audits and reviews etc, to assist the team in ensuring that it carries out its core tasks to a high standard.

• Provide coaching and mentoring support to Social Workers, including those undertaking social work training, to support and further their professional knowledge and development to impact upon the overall quality of practice within teams.

• Attend court, where appropriate, to assist the team in ensuring that key professional input and expertise is provided to high profile and sensitive cases.

• Act as Practice Assessor to support student placements/ASYE.

• Liaise regularly with colleagues throughout the Council to ensure social work staff deliver existing and new practices consistently and to a high standard.

• Contribute to the development of new initiatives through attendance or leadership on working groups, multi agency forums, training courses etc and acting as lead for identified service initiatives, i.e. planning for permanence and research work, to develop current and new ways of working that meet service requirements.

• Maintain awareness of changes in legislation and related policies and practices and ensure all social work staff are also informed of these changes to enable consistent and timely implementation.

Connect2Kent is a trading style of Commercial Services Kent LTD - A company wholly owned by Kent County Council. Connect2Kent is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner

£28,598.62

Staffordshire Moorlands

Permanent

Full-Time

As a Senior Domestic Abuse Practitioner, you ll support adults and families living in our safe accommodation services. You ll deliver focused and tailored one-to-one support to help them live a life free from abuse.

What you ll do:

• Process customer referrals, identify risk and support needs, and deliver tailored practical, emotional and advocacy support for both male and female service users.
• Line manage staff and contribute to a safe, flexible, and high-quality support service.
• Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners, attending meetings (e.g. MARAC/CYP) and advocating for customers.
• Support customers with housing, benefits, tenancy responsibilities, and progression towards independence.
• Assist with service delivery, including rota management, on-call support, reporting, and meeting targets/funding requirements.
• Happy to clean and prepare voids.

Who you are:

• A good level of education such as GCSE English and maths, or equivalent.
• Experience delivering support to customers, recognising their individual needs, making sure they have access to opportunities, all while meeting set deadlines.
• Experience supporting adults with complex needs such as relationship abuse and mental health.
• Knowledge of safeguarding.
• Experience of supporting a team, completing appraisals and check-ins.
• Knowledge of housing and health and safety requirements in a safe accommodation setting.
• An understanding of domestic abuse, including the impact on those affected by it and the legal and practical remedies available to them.
• The ability to work well under pressure and in complex situations.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good computer skills.
• Domestic abuse and safeguarding qualifications.
• A full UK driving licence and use of your own vehicle for work.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check.

Apply now! We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Our client Medway council is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Children's social work team.

Main purpose of the job:

• Safeguard and promote the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people through the provision of high quality social work practice, supporting them to achieve their full potential, living within their family if safe to do so.
• Participate in effective partnership working and engagement and to work collaboratively with a range of organisations, statutory and voluntary in delivering services to children and young people.
• To comply with legislation, statutory guidance and local policies and procedures.
• To be competent in all areas of the PCF at Experienced Social Worker level and The Knowledge and Skills Statement (KSS) for approved child and family practitioners.

Accountabilities and outcomes:

• Manage a complex caseload within a framework of appropriate reflective supervision, undertaking focused, analytical assessments, SMART plans and reviews that have clear objectives and outcome measures in order to ensure that all vulnerable children receive a service that reflects the Council's commitment to achieving positive outcomes for our looked after children.
• Demonstrate expert and effective practice in complex situations that reflects a commitment to relationship and strengths-based practice, assessing and managing higher levels of risk and working collaboratively with children, young people and their families.
• To work with children and families in a variety of diverse and complex contexts, such as mental ill health, disability, substance misuse, domestic abuse, sexual and criminal exploitation, radicalisation, poverty, discrimination, and immigration.
• Provide expert advice and support to less experienced staff on aspects of casework ensuring a high level of practice is demonstrated.
• Contribute to the learning and development of others either through supporting a newly qualified social worker, supervising a family support worker, acting as a Practice Assessor for students on placement, or contributing to training activities in a specialist areas.
• Lead on an area of practice (i.e. contextual safeguarding, completion of DV risk assessments, etc) for the team or service and support others to enhance their knowledge and skills in relation to that subject.
• To be a Signs of Safety Champion and consistently use the Signs of Safety practice model in assessments and interventions with looked after children, their families and their carers.
• Prepare clear, structured and concise reports for meetings, i.e. Child Protection

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Our client Southend-on-Sea City council is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Adoption team.

Purpose of Role

• To ensure Southend Borough Council provides a professional Adoption Service that focuses on children's best interests.
• To provide professional and comprehensive casework on the most complex cases within the service. To take a lead on Post Adoption Services and to be a mentor and advisor to team members.

Main Responsibilities

• To provide an efficient and cost effective social work service to children, young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed.
• To assess and support adoptive carers to ensure that the care that they provide meets the needs of the individual child.
• To gather, investigate, evaluate and analyse all necessary information on assigned cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliability of information, evidenced, conclusions and realistic action plans.
• To develop practice, which takes a holistic view of the individual, locating them in both their immediate and extended social circles, and having full regard to their education, social, recreational, and health needs.
• To ensure that all case work and adoption services comply with statutory requirements, regulation and the Council's policies and procedures
• To ensure that investigations, enquiries and assessments are completed to high professional standards and that each case has in place current Care Plans and Adoption Plans.
• Maintain adequate case recording as directed in the service procedures.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Our client Birmingham's Children's Trust is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Family Help service.

Job Purpose

To provide a high-quality, statutory social work service within the Family Help model, working collaboratively with children, young people, and their families to safeguard and promote welfare, reduce risk, and achieve sustainable outcomes.

The postholder will hold a caseload of children and families requiring targeted early help, statutory assessment, or Child in Need (CIN) planning, ensuring interventions are timely, strengths-based, and trauma-informed, aligned to the Family Help approach.

Key Responsibilities

1. Case Management and Statutory Duties

• Manage a diverse caseload including:
  • Child in Need (Section 17)
  • Pre-proceedings / Public Law Outline (where applicable)
  • Step-up cases requiring safeguarding oversight
• Complete high-quality statutory assessments, including:
  • Children & Families Assessments
  • Risk assessments and safety plans
• Take appropriate action where there are safeguarding concerns, including escalation in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children.
• Ensure all interventions prioritise the child's safety, welfare, and development.

2. Direct Work with Children and Families

• Build purposeful, professional relationships with children and families using a strengths-based and relationship-focused approach.
• Undertake direct work to:
  • Capture the voice of the child
  • Assess parenting capacity and family functioning
  • Support behavioural and emotional change
• Work persistently with families where there is resistance, maintaining a clear focus on safety and outcomes.

3. Planning, Intervention and Review

• Develop and review Child in Need plans in partnership with families and multi-agency professionals.
• Chair and/or contribute to:
  • Child in Need meetings
  • Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings
  • Core groups (if stepping up)
• Monitor progress and adapt plans to ensure measurable impact and improved outcomes.

4. Multi-Agency Working

• Work collaboratively with partner agencies including schools, health, police, and voluntary sector organisations.
• Coordinate joined-up interventions to reduce risk and avoid escalation where appropriate.
• Contribute to multi-agency safeguarding processes and strategy discussions where required.

5. Recording and Compliance

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date case records in line with statutory requirements and local policy.
• Prepare high-quality reports for:
  • Reviews and planning meetings
  • Legal processes (where applicable)
• Work within statutory timescales and service KPIs, ensuring audit-ready recording at all times.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Senior Practitioner / Complex Caseworker

Location: Ilford, Greater London
Rate: 37.08 per hour (Umbrella)
Contract: Full Time Temporary/Locum

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Practitioner / Complex Caseworker to join a service in Ilford, Greater London.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for a skilled practitioner to take responsibility for complex cases, provide specialist support, and contribute to the continuous improvement and development of the service.

You will play a key role in delivering high-quality outcomes for service users, using your professional expertise to manage challenging situations, provide guidance, and support effective service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload and undertake high-quality assessments and interventions.
• Take responsibility for specific tasks, projects or areas of specialist practice.
• Provide professional advice, guidance and support to colleagues where required.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partner agencies.
• Ensure accurate recording, reporting and compliance with relevant policies and procedures.
• Contribute to service improvements, quality assurance and the development of best practice.
• Support positive outcomes for service users through effective case management and professional decision-making.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant professional qualification and significant post-qualification experience.
• Proven experience managing complex cases within a statutory or public sector environment.
• Strong assessment, analytical and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and partnership-working abilities.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise workload and manage competing demands.
• Commitment to delivering person-centred, high-quality services.

What's on Offer

• 37.08 per hour Umbrella
• Full-time locum opportunity.
• Opportunity to work within a supportive professional team.
• Chance to make a meaningful contribution to service development and improved outcomes.

If you are an experienced practitioner looking for your next opportunity in Ilford, Greater London, we would like to hear from you. Apply today!

For more information, contact Natasha Haddon.

Our client Kent county council (Folkestone) is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Children's social work teams.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Manage a caseload of complex cases involving high levels of risk and needs to a high standard to ensure resources are utilised effectively.
• Provide a high quality resource of professional social work knowledge and expertise to a team of Social Workers, to include student supervision, chairing complex meetings, assisted fieldwork, attendance in court, case audits and reviews etc, to assist the team in ensuring that it carries out its core tasks to a high standard.
• Provide coaching and mentoring support to Social Workers, including those undertaking social work training, to support and further their professional knowledge and development to impact upon the overall quality of practice within teams.
• Attend court, where appropriate, to assist the team in ensuring that key professional input and expertise is provided to high profile and sensitive cases.
• Act as Practice Assessor to support student placements/ASYE.
• Liaise regularly with colleagues throughout the Council to ensure social work staff deliver existing and new practices consistently and to a high standard.
• Contribute to the development of new initiatives through attendance or leadership on working groups, multiagency forums, training courses etc and acting as lead for identified service initiatives, i.e. planning for permanence and research work, to develop current and new ways of working that meet service requirements.
• Maintain awareness of changes in legislation and related policies and practices and ensure all social work staff are also informed of these changes to enable consistent and timely implementation.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Our client Caerphilly County Borough Council is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Locality team.

To provide an enhanced level of social work skills and expertise within the team in order to develop and maintain standards of practice and to deputise for the Team Manager on specified occasions. This will include direct supervision of Social Workers, Students, Volunteers and Support Workers.

To assist the Team Manager in the continued development of high quality service delivery.

Work with the Team Manager to ensure that the team provides an appropriate service within current legislation, regulations, guidance, and the Directorates policies and procedures.

To manage a caseload of complex cases.

Task profile

Manage complex cases within required timescales.

• Manage a mixed complex caseload. Cases will be managed within statutory and locally agreed timescales.
• Intervention and support to be focussed on achieving the best possible outcomes for vulnerable people.

Assist in the team reaching its performance targets.

• To be able to monitor team performance and assist the Team Manager where issues arise.

• To have a good understanding of local and national agencies and to evidence positive partnership working in delivering outcome focussed plans.

• To work with other Social Services Teams and partner agencies in order to improve services for vulnerable people.

• To contribute to development opportunities such as meetings and workshops and task groups.

Ensure effective multidisciplinary working with partner agencies.

Contribute to the development of quality services.

Demonstrate professional competence in social work practice and to fulfil all the requirements of a social worker.

• To attend agreed training to improve knowledge and skills, both for skill enhancement and personal development.
• To attend departmental meetings, and provide written or verbal reports as required.
• To represent the Directorate as required in panel and court processes, including the provision of written reports, statements and the giving of verbal evidence.
• To liaise and work jointly with staff of other Directorates and agencies as appropriate.
• To ensure that all work is carried out in line with statutory requirements and the Directorate's policies and procedures.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Our client Medway council is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Children's social work team.

Main purpose of the job:

• Safeguard and promote the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people through the provision of high quality social work practice, supporting them to achieve their full potential, living within their family if safe to do so.
• Participate in effective partnership working and engagement and to work collaboratively with a range of organisations, statutory and voluntary in delivering services to children and young people.
• To comply with legislation, statutory guidance and local policies and procedures.
• To be competent in all areas of the PCF at Experienced Social Worker level and The Knowledge and Skills Statement (KSS) for approved child and family practitioners.

Accountabilities and outcomes:

• Manage a complex caseload within a framework of appropriate reflective supervision, undertaking focused, analytical assessments, SMART plans and reviews that have clear objectives and outcome measures in order to ensure that all vulnerable children receive a service that reflects the Council's commitment to achieving positive outcomes for our looked after children.
• Demonstrate expert and effective practice in complex situations that reflects a commitment to relationship and strengths-based practice, assessing and managing higher levels of risk and working collaboratively with children, young people and their families.
• To work with children and families in a variety of diverse and complex contexts, such as mental ill health, disability, substance misuse, domestic abuse, sexual and criminal exploitation, radicalisation, poverty, discrimination, and immigration.
• Provide expert advice and support to less experienced staff on aspects of casework ensuring a high level of practice is demonstrated.
• Contribute to the learning and development of others either through supporting a newly qualified social worker, supervising a family support worker, acting as a Practice Assessor for students on placement, or contributing to training activities in a specialist areas.
• Lead on an area of practice (i.e. contextual safeguarding, completion of DV risk assessments, etc) for the team or service and support others to enhance their knowledge and skills in relation to that subject.
• To be a Signs of Safety Champion and consistently use the Signs of Safety practice model in assessments and interventions with looked after children, their families and their carers.
• Prepare clear, structured and concise reports for meetings, i.e. Child Protection

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Our client Southend-on-Sea City council is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Adoption team.

Purpose of Role

• To ensure Southend Borough Council provides a professional Adoption Service that focuses on children's best interests.
• To provide professional and comprehensive casework on the most complex cases within the service. To take a lead on Post Adoption Services and to be a mentor and advisor to team members.

Main Responsibilities

• To provide an efficient and cost effective social work service to children, young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed.
• To assess and support adoptive carers to ensure that the care that they provide meets the needs of the individual child.
• To gather, investigate, evaluate and analyse all necessary information on assigned cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliability of information, evidenced, conclusions and realistic action plans.
• To develop practice, which takes a holistic view of the individual, locating them in both their immediate and extended social circles, and having full regard to their education, social, recreational, and health needs.
• To ensure that all case work and adoption services comply with statutory requirements, regulation and the Council's policies and procedures
• To ensure that investigations, enquiries and assessments are completed to high professional standards and that each case has in place current Care Plans and Adoption Plans.
• Maintain adequate case recording as directed in the service procedures.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.