Senior Practitioner Case Management Team

Location Southwark
Salary £27 - £29 per hour
Discipline
Experienced Senior Practitioner with 2 or more years experience complex case management required.

The Case Management Team work with older people and people with physical and sensory disabilities. The client group are vulnerable adults facing risks to wellbeing and potentially at risk of abuse.

The work is long-term and complex, and a proportion of the social care response involves enacting legal protections.

The Senior Practitioners in the team oversee the work of a group of Social Workers.

The post is essential to ensure safe social work decision making and to give support to the Social Workers in Case Management.

Working alongside your peers, the SP will be responsible for
  • Managing incoming referrals;
  • Prioritising work
  • Writing professional reports including those required for legal proceedings
  • Undertaking supervision with social workers occupational therapists, assistant practitioners and sensory practitioners;
  • Ensuring timely and proportionate allocation of work, performance management of staff
  • Supporting people with safeguarding needs adopting a strength based approach and attendance to Court.   .