Advanced Practitioner - Safeguarding Team
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Solid value highlighted by competitive salary and focus on best practices in child protection and court work.
- Salary: Up to £58,116 per annum
- Role focused on significant safeguarding responsibilities
- Pathway to mentorship and practice development
Pros
- Fixed salary up to £58,116 providing stability
- Focus on excellence in practice development
- Opportunity to work closely with senior leaders in safeguarding
Cons
- Intensive workload managing complex cases
- Potential for high stress in court-related work
- Limited exposure to areas outside of child protection
Who it's for
Experienced Professional • Full-time in-office
Good fit
- Experienced social workers with court-related experience
- Candidates dedicated to frontline child protection
- Individuals focusing on practice improvement within social work
Not recommended for
- Inexperienced social workers
- Those preferring roles with less pressure
- Candidates not interested in court work
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Practitioner within the Safeguarding Team to work full time for Achieving for Children, based in Kingston.
The salary for this permanent Advanced Practitioner job is up to £58,116 per annum.
Main duties:
- The post holder will support practice related development across our services based in Kingston and Richmond focusing primarily on court work. They will be responsible for the development and implementation of excellence practice across the organisation, and specifically within the teams.
- This role is developed for those with extensive experience and skills that wish to remain in frontline practice and who may not wish to progress along a management route.
- The post holder will have a more complex caseload of Child Protection, pre-proceedings and court cases.
- The post holder will also be responsible for assisting social workers to develop experience and skills in managing court work.
- They will be required to deputise for the Team Leaders where needed. The role will require close links with the Head of Service, Case Progression Officer, Legal Department and senior leadership team to ensure that there is a joined up approach to practice development in this area.
- The post holder will support social workers so that their practice is effective, meets regularly requirements, complies with statutory guidance, and learns from evidence-based interventions and innovative practice.
- The postholder will support use of the Signs of Safety and Wellbeing framework across Social Care, and will support the framework with the use of direct tools for working with children and young people.
- In all roles across AFC the post holders will be expected to develop and lead a culture of partnership and innovation, so that services are child focussed, flexible and adaptable. The whole organisation should learn from mistakes, share knowledge and challenge existing practice.
Requirements of this Advanced Practitioner role:
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Advanced Practitioner job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
