Senior Practitioner Court Team (part of Safeguarding and Care Planning)
Focusing on the child, not forgetting you
Salary: up to £52,327.00 per annum
In addition, you will receive £2000 annual retention payment, £2000 Golden Hello and other excellent benefits including a lease carLocation: Bromley Civic Centre/flexible working
Looking for your next exciting adventure in social work? Look no further!
Bromley Children’s Social Care has recently been awarded an Ofsted rating of “outstanding”. You can view the latest report on: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/44/305
Bromley are seeking highly talented and ambitious registered Senior Practitioners to join us on our journey to excellence.
Bromley is committed to making children and young people in the Borough its top priority.
The Safeguarding and Care Planning Service works in partnership with other agencies such as Police, Health and Education, and aims to ensure children grow up with the best life chances and receive safe and consistent care.
Our values and behaviours have a key part to play in how staff carry out the work of the Council and how we engage and build working relationships with key partner agencies. This framework outlines the desired behaviours that align with our established values, to help create a workforce that are able to deliver services that are seen as ‘excellent’ in the eyes of local people. To read more about our REAL Values and Behaviours, please click here: Values and Behaviours.pdf
The Court Team is a specialist team within the Safeguarding Service. The focus of the work is with children at significant risk of harm where intervention of the court is necessary to protect them. Many of these children become looked after by the Local Authority in the interim and subsequently may not be able to return to their parents. They may be permanently cared for elsewhere by living with either extended family, long term foster care or adoption under a Court Order.
The Court Team consists of a Team Manager and 6 Senior Practitioners.
This team works in partnership with the Bromley Children’s Legal Team to ensure that children’s cases that are presented to court are well prepared and timely.
You will be joining an ambitious service with strong leadership and clear lines of support. As part of the Bromley Promise there will be a dedicated two-week induction programme upon joining us.
We are confident that with your support, we will continue to provide high quality social care services to our children in Bromley as set out in our improvement and transformation plan. In return we ask that you bring your passion, dedication and skills to us.
The Bromley Promise:
· Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker
· Dedicated time for reflective supervision
· Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days
· Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising four Social Workers
· Two-week protected induction programme
· Excellent Learning and development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker
· Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team
To view our Roadmap to Excellence document please click here.
To view our Social Work Practice Standards please click here.
Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:
We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners. We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment. We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts
The position requires recent court experience and the ideal candidate would be keen to join a team that specialises in court work within a safeguarding team.
To view the JD and Person Specification please click here.
The prospective candidate needs to:
In Bromley we are consistently going above and beyond, enabling our children, young people, and their families to grow and flourish, being aspirational and building resilience for the future. We strive to create opportunities to be innovative and reflective within an organisation that nurtures relationships, always seeks feedback, and has self-confidence to listen and act.
Our vision is: by working together with children and their families and agency partners, we will ensure that every child in Bromley has the right help at the right time to keep them safe, and to meet their needs, so they achieve, thrive, and reach their full potential.
Our ‘Bromley Relationship Model’ is a model unique to our local authority based on Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory. Our vision is at the heart of our model and is supported by our purpose, our aims, our social work behaviours, and our enablers.
Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker
Dedicated time for reflective supervision
Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days
Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising four Social Workers
Two-week protected induction programme
Excellent Learning and development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker
Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team
Some of the benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:
Flexible/hybrid working
Eligibility to join the Lease Car Scheme
Membership of the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
Excellent transport links
Salary Sacrifice Schemes e.g. Cycle2Work bike scheme
Employee Benefits Lifestyle Discounts – hundreds of discounts at local and national retailers, restaurants, holidays and much more
Golden Hello
Retention Bonus
Performance Rewards
If you'd like to arrange an informal chat about this role, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at acquisitionrecruitment@bromley.gov.uk