Senior Practitioner

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.
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.
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.

The successful candidate must:

Be very well organised, have the ability to communicate effectively and articulate evidence in care proceedings.
Write reports to a high standard, that are concise, evidence based for court and adoption panel i.e Child Permanency and Adoption Placement Reports
Meet court timelines for submission of statements, care plans, and to effectively parallel plan for children considering all relevant options to secure permanent care at the earliest opportunity for the child.
Undertake assessments i.e parenting and together and apart assessments, plan appropriate intervention and work creatively with children and families who are in court proceedings
Have a good understanding of safeguarding thresholds and ability to assess and analysis risks, including good knowledge of child development and attachment theories and permanency needs of children of all ages

Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:

Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance
Merited pay scheme
30 days Annual Leave
The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme
Excellent training and career development pathway
Free Car Parking at Bromley Civic Centre
The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance
Relocation Allowance up to £8,000 for successful candidates relocating from overseas or the outer southeast area

Bromley Council are seeking highly talented and ambitious registered Senior Practitioners to join them on their journey to excellence.