Senior Practitioner - Children in Care, South EssexPermanent, Full Time*48,205 to 57,988 per annumLocation: BasildonWorking Style: Community-based workerClosing Date: 15th September 2026*Essex County Council understand how important flexibility and wellbeing is for our colleagues working across children's Social Care and that we need to think differently. We have therefore developed a nine-day working fortnight for full time frontline Social Workers within Children’s services.We are a friendly, supportive, and hard-working team where we always hold children at the centre of what we do. We have created an open, reflective and learning culture where social workers feel enabled and supported to raise issues, consider different perspectives, challenge authority, and try out different approaches in a safe and non-blaming environment. Good quality reflective supervision is provided to all social workers and senior practitioners.As a Senior Practitioner you will provide leadership in the team, provide both support and mentoring to newly qualified or less experienced staff,



facilitate reflective group supervision, oversee the team’s duty service, deputise for the Team Manager when needed and have responsibility to lead in a practice area.There will be opportunities for your own professional development and for being part of developing our team and service.Children in CareChildren in Care (CIC) teams work with children and young people up to the age of 18 who are in care– they’re unable to live at home and are either placed with a foster carer or live in residential homes. They work with children and young people to ensure their experiences in care is a good one and that the work undertaken prepares them for their transition into leaving care or return home to family. The CIC teams receive cases in proceedings after the first hearing, they visit children and young people in placement, develop permanency plans which include Special Guardianship Order (SGO) and adoption, under

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