Senior Practitioner - Family Safeguarding Team
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Moderate value due to a good salary and complex case responsibilities, but potential for work pressure exists.
- Salary up to £51,802 per annum
- Involvement in safeguarding complex cases
- Opportunities to develop teamwork and leadership skills
- Intensive role with significant responsibilities
Pros
- Salary of up to £51,802 per annum
- Opportunities to develop practice skills and provide support
- Work in a collaborative, multi-agency setting
Cons
- Full-time role may lead to increased workload
- High responsibility for safeguarding decisions can add pressure
- Position may require navigating complex social systems frequently
Who it's for
Mid-career to Senior • On-site
Good fit
- Mid-career social workers with safeguarding experience
- Candidates interested in team leadership roles
- Individuals aiming for impactful community work
Not recommended for
- New entrants to social work
- Those seeking remote working options
- Candidates uncomfortable with high-stakes decisions
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
JOB-20241107-791d94d2
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Family Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Hertfordshire.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £51,802 per annum.
Main duties:
- Provide practice development opportunities for own team and partner organisation.
- Responsible for making professional risk-informed complex decisions.
- Provide statutory support to residents, including the provision of information, advice, assessment, support planning and safeguarding in line with statutory guidance and council policy and procedures.
- Work in partnership with voluntary sector organisations, partners and others to provide integrated and coordinated support to residents and families in the community.
- Manage an allocated caseload to deliver specialist support and services to residents and the community within defined standards.
- Make recommendations on procedural, process and service improvements to enhance overall team and service performance.
- Recognise and monitor risk, escalating issues to more senior colleagues when necessary to ensure that situations are addressed at the earliest possible time.
- Operate effectively within and contribute to the development of organisations and services, including multi-agency and inter-professional settings.
- Control team activities to meet Daily/Weekly/Monthly caseloads performance targets and schedules.
- Cascading information on the corporate context so that organisational messages are understood in the team and disseminating best practices to help teams understand and enact changes and improvement.
- Prioritise work and resolves day-to-day operating resources issues.
- May support the control of budgets to deliver service priorities and to ensure appropriate resource are available.
- May provide specialist development or support to core/standard professionals.
Requirements of this Senior 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 Senior 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.
