Lead Practitioner – Children Services

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Full time
Location: Wolverhampton
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Job offered by: Tripod Partners
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We need experience of CP planning as this team is a specialist CP team – we require strong candidates who can challenge thresholds and go up against professionals who see everything as CP. We are embedding a new model and way of working and we need to take professionals on this journey to achieve change.

In Wolverhampton, we are ambitious for our social workers, passionate about excellent, relational social work practice, and courageous in our innovation, with leaders who are visible and responsive.

We need people like you who want to make a real difference in the lives of children and families and will support us to deliver excellent services to the most vulnerable children in our city.

The CP Lead Practitioner

will be a qualified social worker with significant demonstrable knowledge and experience to act as a recognised expert in the field of child protection. You will demonstrate excellent knowledge in issues such as domestic abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and contextual safeguarding. You will be able to provide expert advice and consultation to practitioners across the multi-agency partnership and support the allocated social worker to continue to work effectively with families when significant harm has been identified. You will have responsibility for section 47 enquiries, children on child protection plans, and children in pre-proceedings as part of an allocated caseload. You will be able to encourage and facilitate critical thinking and challenge across the multi-agency group. You will demonstrate robust and evidence-based understanding of the application of thresholds in order to support children and families at the appropriate level.

If you are someone who is passionate and tenacious, wants to do the best job possible, and is committed to excellent social work practice and achieving the very best for our Children, Young People, and Families, then we want to hear from you!

At the award-winning, Ofsted rated Good with outstanding features, City of Wolverhampton Council, we work restoratively with children and families, building strong relationships and connections to help them find long-lasting solutions.

Our vision for the Children and Young People Services is: To develop respectful and empowering relationships with children, young people, and families To ensure children are at the centre of everything we do High aspirations, high expectations We are a forward-thinking, responsive, and innovative organisation and want our social workers to spend their time building relationships with families to achieve real, sustainable change. We focus on teams having manageable workloads and we have a clear development pathway alongside a substantial training and development offer which is varied and responsive to practice challenges. Our senior managers and leaders are visible and take the time to listen to frontline employees. We are proud to say we are Ofsted rated Good with outstanding features.

We will inspire, support, and champion you so that you can be the social worker you want to be.

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