Senior Practitioner | Family Help Service | Tameside Council

Tameside Council is looking for an experienced Senior Practitioner to join its newly formed Family Help Service. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified social worker who is passionate about working with children, young people and families at the right time, with the right level of intervention, to create meaningful and sustained change.

This role will suit a practitioner who combines strong direct work and assessment skills with the ability to support colleagues, improve practice standards and contribute to service leadership. You will play a key role in helping families access high-quality support, reducing risk, and promoting positive outcomes for children and young people.

Role Overview

As a Senior Practitioner within the Family Help Service, you will work with children in need and their families to ensure timely, effective and strengths-based support is in place. Alongside managing complex work, you will help drive high standards across the service by offering guidance, quality assurance and practice support to Lead Practitioners and wider colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Work directly with children, young people and families to provide high-quality intervention and support

• Hold and support complex children in need work, ensuring robust plans are in place
• Help families identify and build sustainable solutions that improve outcomes and reduce escalation
• Provide quality assurance, advice and guidance to Family Help Lead Practitioners and wider colleagues
• Support strong decision-making through workshops, reflective discussions and group supervision
• Attend and chair a range of multi-agency meetings to support planning and information sharing
• Contribute to service leadership through mentoring, coaching and practice development
• Promote consistently high standards of practice across the Family Help Service
• Ensure the views of children, young people, families and partners are considered in service delivery
• Champion Tameside’s Heart of Support Practice Approach in day-to-day practice

Benefits

• Opportunity to join a newly formed service at an important stage of development
• Chance to influence practice standards and support service improvement
• Leadership responsibility without stepping fully away from frontline impact
• Supportive team environment focused on high-quality family intervention
• Opportunity to contribute to mentoring, coaching and workforce development

Requirements

• Social Work qualification and Social Work England registration
• Strong experience working with children, young people and families in statutory services
• Sound knowledge of child in need planning, assessment and intervention
• Ability to support and develop less experienced practitioners
• Strong communication, reflective practice and decision-making skills
• Experience of working effectively within multi-agency settings
• Confidence in chairing meetings and contributing to service leadership
• Commitment to high standards of practice and relationship-based social work

Interested?

If you are an experienced children’s social worker looking for a role where you can combine direct impact with leadership, coaching and service development, this could be a great next move.

To find out more or apply, contact:
Emily Cooper - ecooper@sheldon-phillips.com | 07745 200325

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