Practice Leader - Leaving Care Service

Job Introduction

Practice Leaders – Leaving Care

5+ years experience in a statutory social worker role is required including experience of working within a leaving care service.

Full Time: 35 hours per week

Salary: PO6

Permanent position

Our Leaving Care Service is fully established and operates within a lively and thriving workplace, where we are continually striving to improve our learning and practice. We take our Corporate Parenting role seriously and strive to provide the best service to our young people in and leaving care. We are ambitious for our children and young people and work with a wide range of professionals who contribute to the team’s goals, outcomes and ambitions.

We are immensely proud of our Outstanding Ofsted rating which references: “Care leavers in Greenwich receive an outstanding service. Impressive personal advisers (PAs) know their young people extremely well and speak with compassion, care and knowledge about them.”

The Leaving Care Service is fast paced and busy which offers swift responses to ensure that young people leaving care receive high quality support and the right interventions.

The service is seeking two experienced, dynamic and dedicated practice leaders who are committed to driving improved services forward, and, together with our partners, deliver positive outcomes for our children and young people leaving care.

Candidates must have experience of working within a Leaving Care Service.

You must be keen to contribute to a service of excellence to our children and young people in Greenwich.

In the service, we promote RBG’s Practice Framework (systemic and compassionate based theory and non-discriminatory relational practice). We provide excellent training opportunities, provide good management support and regular supervision.

Please view the attached Job Profile for the key requirements for this role and address these when completing your supporting statement.

Hiring managers are available for discussion and/or to respond to any questions regarding this role.

We reserve rights to close the application earlier in event of a large response rate.

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated. 

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.