Our client Southend-on-Sea City council is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join their Adoption team.

Purpose of Role

To ensure Southend Borough Council provides a professional Adoption Service that focuses on children's best interests.
To provide professional and comprehensive casework on the most complex cases within the service. To take a lead on Post Adoption Services and to be a mentor and advisor to team members.Main Responsibilities

To provide an efficient and cost effective social work service to children, young people and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed.
To assess and support adoptive carers to ensure that the care that they provide meets the needs of the individual child.
To gather, investigate, evaluate and analyse all necessary information on assigned cases, demonstrating clarity of assessment, reliability of information, evidenced, conclusions and realistic acti...