Senior Practitioner - Child Protection & Assessment Team
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to competitive salary, significant responsibilities in safeguarding, and opportunities for professional development.
- Competitive salary: up to £55,427 per annum
- Engaging and complex case management responsibilities
- Opportunities for professional mentoring and leadership
- High emotional demands and stress levels
Pros
- Competitive salary up to £55,427 per annum for senior roles
- Strong focus on professional development and mentorship
- Direct involvement in complex, impactful cases
Cons
- High emotional and mental demands due to case complexities
- Potential for limited work/life balance given full-time, on-site nature
- Requires ongoing compliance with legislation and training
Who it's for
Senior • Full-time, in-office
Good fit
- Experienced social workers with a passion for child safety
- Those looking for advancement in leadership within social work
- Candidates interested in supporting the development of junior staff
Not recommended for
- Newly qualified social workers without adequate case experience
- Individuals seeking remote work or flexible schedules
- Those who prefer a less emotionally demanding role
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 Child Protection & Assessment team (CPAT) Team to work full time based in Redbridge.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £55,427 per annum.
Main duties:
- Take professional responsibility for managing a complex caseload which will include individuals, children, carers and families who require support and guidance.
- Demonstrate confident and effective judgement about risk and accountability in decision-making and be able to sustain engagement with fluctuating circumstances and capacities, including where there is hostility and risk.
- Use assessment procedures discerningly in response to the presenting needs and to ensure that a proportionate assessment is completed in a way that enables maximum participation.
- Use professional judgement, employing a range of interventions: promoting independence, providing support and protection, taking preventative action and ensuring safety whilst balancing rights and risks.
- Take the lead in managing positive interventions that prevent deterioration in health and wellbeing whilst safeguarding people at risk of abuse or neglect.
- Undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding in more complex cases, and support colleagues by utilising safeguarding skills, in line with current policies and procedures.
- Play a leading role in practice development, help promote and sustain a learning culture and mentor less experienced staff.
- Deliver formal professional reflective supervision and provide guidance and advice regarding casework to less experienced qualified staff.
- Where required, take the role of practice educator (or train as a practice educator) for students and the role of ASYE assessor and supervisor for newly qualified social workers in the team.
- As part of the supervision and appraisal process provide support with personal and professional development.
- Take professional and personal responsibility for clear recording of analysis and judgements, maintaining up to date case work records on the database as required by council.
- Take responsibility for working within the Directorate’s data protection policies.
Requirements of this Senior Practitioner job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Continual professional development.
- Social Work England registered.
Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.
