Vacancies

Senior Practitioner

Main Responsibility

You will:

• Be required to support with the recruitment, retention, placement matching of children with disabilities / complex needs and young people who are moving from residential care into foster families. 
• You will undertake a direct supervisory support role to foster carers and contribute to pre-placement assessments to ensure young people placed are safe whilst being supported and managed in a way that ensures the young person achieves positive outcomes during and beyond their placement experience.
• You will work directly with a range of multi-agency professionals to coordinate long and short-term placement needs
• You will have case management responsibility for complex cases and will co-work cases with less experienced staff.
• You will be available to offer advice, support and consultation to team members including the direct supervision of Family Practitioners.
• Promote effective multi agency service delivery, and restorative practice with partner agencies,
• Hold a caseload on a county wide basis.

The Ideal Candidate

You will:

• Be Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying experience, working with foster carers and children in care as well as demonstrating relevant experience in supervisory responsibility and team development
• Registered with Social Work England
• Have a current UK driving licence and vehicle
• A commitment to embedding restorative practice within your role and wider service,

For more information please contact Alisha Gordon, Team Manager at alisha.gordon@staffordshire.gov.uk

This is a 12 month fixed term post 

Interviews will take place on the 25th June 2026 at Staffordshire Place One.

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role. Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes detailed below.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. 

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. 

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.