Senior Practitioner - Referral & Assessment Team
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Promising salary structure and opportunity for substantial impact, though emotional challenges in working with vulnerable groups are significant.
- Competitive salary: Up to £46,034/year
- Chance to mentor and lead teams
- Work directly with families to affect change
Pros
- Up to £46,034/year salary
- Role includes leadership and mentorship opportunities
- Impactful work with children and families
Cons
- Managing high-stress situations and emotional cases
- High workload could affect personal time
- Need for constant adaptation to new policies and practices
Who it's for
Senior • In-office
Good fit
- Social workers with experience in assessments
- Professionals eager to make community impacts
- Candidates skilled in multi-agency collaboration
Not recommended for
- New social workers or recent graduates
- Individuals not prepared for emotional labor
- Those avoiding complex family dynamics
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 Referral & Assessment Team to work full time based in Luton.
The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner job is up to £46,034 per annum.
Main duties:
- To be responsible for a complex caseload including those children at risk and subject to care proceedings and child protection plans to make a positive difference for children, young people and families in the town, by driving up the quality of practice and partnerships across the town and its services, whilst ensuring legislative requirements are met.
- Support Team Managers to promote excellence within the team, i.e. providing peer supervision, mentoring and deputising in the absence of Managers.
- To gather information, to complete clear, accurate and holistic professional assessment of need and risk in respect of children and families. Critically analyse all relevant information and take the lead role to co-ordinate the multi-agency approach to promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of child/young people.
- Creating effective SMART plans referring to the Practice Framework, implement, monitor and review using the appropriate available resources ensuring needs are met through negotiation and consultation with professional colleagues and services users.
- Liaise and work with other professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people. Build [positive relationships with children and their families through promoting participation and undertaking direct work to ensure that their voices, wishes and feelings are heard.
- Update and maintain high quality case files in the council’s management information system, Liquid Logic, ensuring that all key information about the child’s circumstances and plans are recorded within timescales and comply with General Data Protection Regulations.
- To take personal responsibility for own professional development and reflective practice and keep up to date with changes to legislation, court rules, policies, procedures and best practice development i.e. for your Continued Professional Development and progression through regular check-ins and supervisions. Attending training through the Social Work Academy and Research in Practice.
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 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.
