Senior Practitioner; Cared for Children Council Posted yesterday

Contract Type

Permanent

Grade I. Scale 35 - £46,142 to Scale 39 - £50,269 with a professional bar at SCP 37 £ 48,226**

36 hours per week

Ashton Old Library, Old Street, Ashton under-Lyne, OL6 7SG

To be arranged

In Tameside we are committed to building a safe, happy, healthy and successful future for our Cared for Children ensuring that they receive the best standard of care and opportunities to achieve optimal outcomes. In order to achieve this we are looking to add an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Practitioner to our Cared for Children service.

The Senior Practitioner role is the first step on the management ladder. You will be part of a team led by a Team Manager. You will hold a small caseload of complex cases whilst supporting the Team Manager in improving the service delivery to our cared for children by providing a mentoring and coaching role for social workers and you will deputise for the team manager in chairing meetings and providing management oversight for cases.

You will contribute to ensuring timely care and permanence planning for children, achieving this through professional and reflective supervision, supporting staff learning and development and ensuring the production of high quality work to improve the outcomes for our Cared for Children.

You will be surrounded by a friendly and supportive network of experienced managers, who will provide you with a comprehensive induction, training, help, and advice to enable you to reach your full potential. We have adopted a trauma informed strength and relationship based approach as our practice framework, and training will be available to all new employees.

Find out more information why you should work for us.

You will be an experienced practitioner with a high level of skills and knowledge who models good practice and is passionate about achieving good outcomes for children. You will have excellent leadership skills and commitment in contributing towards our vision of meeting the holistic needs of our cared for children and are able to work collaboratively and creatively in order to achieve this.

Message from Jill Colbert, Director of Children’s Services

I joined the council at the beginning of 2025 and was instantly charmed by the warmth, openness, and energy of colleagues.

I came to Tameside for one reason; because I know we can do fantastic things for our families here.

We’re a children’s service on a significant improvement journey. We know what needs to be different for our children and families and we’re ambitious to deliver that change.

We have a growing range of specialist services for children, where you can test and grow your skills and practice. We have a Social Work Academy that is led by people who bring passion to learning and who know that the DCS’ of the future are right in front of them. We are working on our progression pathways so that staying in Tameside is rewarded and recognised.

We have investment in innovation and improvement from the council so that we can grow services and support for families that we can sustain, from family hubs through to complex safeguarding.

I am so certain that we can build a proud, inclusive and safe climate for great practice to flourish in Tameside. I’d love you to join me on the journey here at Team Tameside.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on our vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.

We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are…