Senior Practitioner (Children with Disabilities Team) - CLA04465

Job Description

Senior Practitioner - Children with Disabilities TeamClackmannanshire Children with Disabilities Team is seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Senior Practitioner to join our small, dedicated, and dynamic team.This is an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role within a service committed to achieving the very best outcomes for children and young people with disabilities and their families. We are a small hardworking and supportive team that prides itself on building meaningful relationships, working creatively to overcome challenges, and ensuring children and young people receive the right support at the right time.As a Senior Practitioner, you will work alongside passionate and skilled colleagues who are committed to promoting inclusion, safeguarding children, supporting families, and enabling children and young people with disabilities to reach their full potential. You will provide professional support, mentoring, and guidance while managing a complex caseload and contributing to the ongoing development of the service.The team works with children and young people with a wide range of complex needs and disabilities, supporting families through assessment, planning, transition to adulthood, Self-directed Support (SDS), short breaks, complex care packages, and multi-agency interventions. We are committed to delivering relationship-based, trauma-informed, and strengths-focused practice that keeps children, young people, and their families at the heart of everything we do.Key ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior Practitioner within the Children with Disabilities Team, you will:

• Manage and oversee a complex caseload involving children and young people with disabilities and their families.
• Provide professional support, supervision, mentoring, and guidance to Resource Worker
• Lead on the development of effective transition planning for young people moving into adult services.
• Complete high-quality assessments, care planning, reviews, and risk management processes, ensuring interventions are child-centred and outcome-focused.
• Undertake and contribute to Pre-Birth Assessments, supporting timely decision-making and effective planning for vulnerable children and families.
• Lead and contribute to child protection investigations, Child Protection Planning Meetings, Care Experienced Children processes, and complex multi-agency interventions.
• Ensure practice is trauma-informed, strengths-based, relationship-focused, and aligned with GIRFEC principles.
• Support children and young people through key life stages, including transition planning to adulthood, Self-directed Support (SDS) processes, short breaks, and complex care package arrangements.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies, including health, education, police, adult services, housing, and third-sector organisations, including attendance at Initial Referral Discussions (IRDs) and other statutory meetings.
• Provide professional leadership and expertise in relation to disability, safeguarding, risk assessment, and legislative responsibilities.
• Support the effective allocation and oversight of work within the team, contributing to the delivery of high-quality services and positive outcomes for children and families.
• Contribute to service improvement, quality assurance, performance management, and the implementation of best practice across the service.
• Promote inclusion, participation, and the rights of children and young people with disabilities, ensuring their voices influence assessment, planning, and decision-making.

In return, we offer more than just a job. We offer the opportunity to be part of a small team where your contribution is valued, your ideas are welcomed, and your professional development is actively supported.Join us and help shape positive futures for children and young people with disabilities and their families across Clackmannanshire.Informal enquiries may be made to Marjorie McCormack, Team Leader, by telephone on 01259 225000 or by email at childcare@clacks.gov.uk.

Additional Information

You can view the application pack below which contains the job profile outlining the skills, experience and knowledge required for this job. You can also find our recruitment privacy notice and a general information pack about Clackmannanshire Council.

Clackmannanshire Council welcomes applications from everyone and we value diversity in our workforce. We are committed to being an exemplar employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. For this vacancy, we would welcome applications from ethnic minority groups, who are currently under represented in our workforce.

Clackmannanshire Council operates a flexible hybrid approach for those roles that allow this type of working. Attendance at the office will be required to meet the needs of the business and for example to build team and stakeholder relationships. The exact pattern of working will be agreed with you as part of the recruitment process.

Clackmannanshire Council is a living wage accredited employer.

This post is considered Regulated Work with Children and / or Protected Adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. You will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by Clackmannanshire Council. Further guidance will follow in your conditional offer of employment on how to apply. Please note you will be required to pay for the cost of this application if your salary is over £38,000 per annum, which will be deducted from your first pay. Further information can be found here https://www.mygov.scot/pvg-scheme

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