Senior Practitioner

Total Social are working with Wokingham Borough Council who are looking for an experienced locum Children's Senior Practitioner for their Referral & Assessment Team.

Our Referral & Assessment Team are looking for a highly skilled Locum Social Worker. By working in close partnership with families and other professionals to understand more about the support families may need to safely and effectively parent, our team’s clear aim is to identify where the appropriate support can be obtained. Adopting relationship based practice, enables us to strive to ensure all our children and families have meaningful and professional encounters with our Social Workers.

The ideal candidate for this role will be dynamic and flexible with great inter-personal skills, excellent recording skills, and a sound knowledge of children’s legislation and thresholds – as well as the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be able to multi-task.

To ensure continuity of cases held with our locums, we always look for candidates with staying power and will seek this out in the employment history noted within all applications.

Qualifying candidates require at least three years’ post-qualifying experience in direct / permanent employment of an English local authority in children’s services.