Advanced Practitioner - Children with Disabilities (Starting Well)

London Borough of Havering

Contract: Permanent

Grade 9- Advanced Practitioner £54,267 to £58,467 PA with an additional Market Supplement (MS) of £4,000

Message from the Director
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of children, young people, and families? Do you have a strong desire to be part of a transformative journey that will shape the future of Havering’s community? If so, we invite you to join us in our mission to elevate our local authority's Children's Social Care Services, situated within our Starting Well Department.

About The Role
The London Borough of Havering is looking to recruit Advanced Practitioners to contribute to the delivery of an effective children’s social care service as part of a social work team, improving outcomes for children and young people, and manage caseloads dependent upon experience, grade of post and complexity of cases, utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs and risk assessments, care planning and child protection investigations.

Key Responsibilities

• Directly manage and supervise a small number of qualified and non-social work staff.
• Manage a caseload of complex and challenging cases.
• Support team manager in maintaining and developing high professional standards across the team.
• Have specialist knowledge of an area of social work practice with children and families that can be used across the service. To represent the service in developing key service provision or local strategic initiatives.
• Take responsibility for developing skills, expertise and knowledge for a wide range of practice issues and to provide consultation, coaching and mentoring within the team, including effective case management, purposeful evidence-based interventions, analytical assessments and high quality written work.
• Support team development and recruitment process.

Qualifications
To be successful you will have:

• Relevant professional qualification (e.g. social work practitioner, advanced practitioner).
• Minimum of 4 years experience in child and family social care.
• Strong knowledge of child protection and risk assessment.
• Excellent communication, mentoring and coaching skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

What We Offer
We promote a hybrid model of working for our social care staff, with a flexible approach involving working from our town hall campus/hubs. In addition, we also encourage a flexible approach to team building opportunities (we love a catch up over a cuppa, breakfast or lunch) which often take place Face to Face in line with our model of practice.

The Application Process
The closing date for the receipt of applications is at 23:59 on the 12th October 2025; however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early. You will be notified if your application has been successful. Interview date to be confirmed. Should you require any help or advice with your online application, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk on 01708 432770.

Additional Information
Havering has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Please attach your supporting statement explaining why and how you meet the criteria for this role. We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload.

Contact
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact semi.durugo@havering.gov.uk.

Equal Opportunities
We want everyone to choose Havering. When you apply for a job with us, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. Our residents and service users come from all walks of life, and so do our employees. Find out what it means to Choose Havering.