Senior Practitioner - Assessment Team
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Highly attractive role offering excellent salary and significant responsibilities in child welfare management and assessment methodologies.
- Competitive salary: up to £56,614 per annum
- Significant responsibilities in child welfare assessments
- Opportunity to influence positive outcomes for families
- Work demands may exceed standard office hours
Pros
- Salary up to £56,614, competitive in the social work sector
- Direct impact on child welfare, influencing positive outcomes
- Chance to lead on complex cases and develop key skills
Cons
- Intense emotional workload associated with child safeguarding
- Demands of managing high-risk situations regularly
- Potential for extended hours based on case complexities
Who it's for
Senior • Full-time, in-office
Good fit
- Senior social workers specializing in child assessment
- Candidates skilled in risk and intervention strategies
- Professionals driven by a passion for child protection
Not recommended for
- New graduates without significant field experience
- Individuals looking for low-engagement roles
- Those unprepared for emotionally charged work environments
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 a Senior Practitioner within the Assessment Team to work full time based in Medway.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £56,614per annum.
Main duties:
- 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 contribute to training activities in a specialist area.
- 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 Conferences, strategy meetings, Looked After Children Reviews, Children in Need meetings, and court proceedings as necessary, to the required standard and within the prescribed timescales.
- Keep up to date with research findings, theoretical models and innovative practice within the social work field in order to promote evidence informed practice and maintain the highest professional standards.
- At the discretion of the Head of Service, such other activities as may from time to time be agreed consistent with the nature of the job described above.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner role:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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.
