Job Description

This post is being advertised for an Advanced Practitioner for our Emergency Duty Service out of hours. This post is ideal for an experienced Social Work Practitioner, with a sound knowledge of safeguarding thresholds, legislative and statutory duties and responsibilities and safety planning. It is essential that the candidate has previous experience in a similar role and experience in chairing strategy discussion.

This is an exciting opportunity to have real input into the efficient and effective delivery of social care in a nationally leading local authority. Our Children's Services is rated by Ofsted as Outstanding. This is an incredible achievement and something we are extremely proud of as it reflects the quality of social work practice in Lincolnshire.

The Emergency Duty Team are a small and supportive team who work evenings, weekends and bank holidays on a rota system, responding to emergency situations that arise outside of office hours which cannot be left until the next working day, acting to ensure the immediate protection and safeguarding of children and young people who have or who are at risk of harm.

Whilst there is an on-call senior manager available by telephone for support with serious incidents, the successful candidate will need to work autonomously, manage competing demands and work under pressure without the real-time support of their line manager. It is essential for the post holder to have excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to engage multi agency partners and families in developing effective safety plans for children and young people. In addition, the post holder will need to have a strong understanding of safeguarding procedures, be able to hold strategy discussions and progress section 47 investigations.

This role is predominantly home based however the post holder will, by agreement, be required to work from the office for some shifts up until midnight on occasions. The post holder must have the ability to travel and respond to situations that arise during a shift.

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.