Overview
Salary: £45091 – £52413
Shift hours: 37
This is a unique opportunity to join us as a Senior Practitioner in our Help and Protection South area team on full time permanent basis. You will assume a crucial role in managing and delivering effective and efficient services for children, young people, and their families.
Your responsibilities include providing professional supervision, adhering to Social Work England’s code of practice, and contributing to team development. Flexibility and commitment to working outside office hours are essential to meet the diverse needs of families.
As a Senior Practitioner, you will be responsible for:
- Assessing and managing risk in complex and urgent situations.
- Providing professional advice and guidance to other agencies and professionals.
- Supervising and supporting other staff members in the team.
- Ensuring high standards of practice and record keeping.
- Contributing to the development and improvement of the service.
You will make the most of your social work and specialist experience by holding a smaller caseload, also supporting a team of Social workers and taking a lead in the development of their practice.
All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We are seeking candidates with a strong background in working with children, young people, and their families. You should have extensive experience in handling complex cases, including Child Protection, Child in Need, Care Proceedings, and the Public Law Outline.
The ideal candidate will have previously supported children and families when children have been taken into care and will have experience providing guidance and supervision to less experienced colleagues. A relevant Social Work qualification is essential for this role. You will be a confident decision maker who offers high challenge and high praise to colleagues and partners when needed.
If you are passionate about mentoring the next generation of social workers and have a proven track record in children’s services, we would love to hear from you.
Encouraging Diverse Applications:
The children, families and young people we work with come from a variety of backgrounds and in order to deliver the best possible care it is vital that we have a workforce that represents and understands their unique experiences and perspectives.
In order to shape and deliver our services in an effective way, we want to ensure that we have employees from a range of different backgrounds, identities and different lived experiences so that we are able to meet the needs of all the communities that we serve.
Our workforce data shows that men, people from minority ethnic backgrounds, have a disability or who identify as being from the LGBT+ community are under-represented at management level and encourage applicants from these backgrounds to apply. This does not prevent individuals with or without other protected characteristics as set out within the Equality Act 2010 from applying for this post.
For an informal discussion or more information please contact Lisa.O’Connell@coventry.gov.uk
If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme – As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled ‘Coventry City Council Application Process’. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Interview dates: Week commencing 8th September 2025
Reference: coventrycc/TP/113033/11444
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
