Our Children with Disabilities Team is seeking a passionate and ambitious Senior Practitioner to join our growing and evolving service in Peterborough. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a specialist team that supports children and families from the first point of contact through to adulthood.

As a Senior Practitioner, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality social work practice across a diverse range of statutory interventions, including:

• Referrals and Assessments
• Children in Need planning
• Child Protection work
• Looked After Children
• Court proceedings and safeguarding enquiries

You will provide practice leadership and support to colleagues, helping to drive excellent outcomes for children while maintaining high professional standards. Working within the Family Safeguarding model, you will be empowered to use your expertise, creativity and professional judgement to support some of the most vulnerable children and families in our community.

This role offers the opportunity to be part of a service that is ambitious, innovative and committed to continuous improvement.

We support children and young people throughout their journey, from initial assessment through to adulthood. Our work is varied, rewarding and meaningful, providing opportunities to develop expertise across a wide range of social work practice.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. We work closely with colleagues across Children's Services, Adult Social Care, Education, Health and our wider partner agencies to ensure families receive the right support at the right time.

Our teams benefit from being based at Sand Martin House, a modern, purpose-built office in the heart of Peterborough. Here, Children's Services, Adult Social Care, Housing, Legal, Commissioning and other key services are easily accessible, making multi-agency working seamless and effective.

We are committed to creating a positive working environment where employee wellbeing, professional development and reflective supervision are prioritised. We operate a flexible hybrid working model, enabling a balance between home working and office-based collaboration.

All About You

You'll be someone who:

• Is a qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration.
• Has substantial post-qualifying experience working with children and families.
• Demonstrates strong safeguarding knowledge and experience of statutory social work interventions.
• Has experience of Child Protection, Children in Need, Looked After Children and court work.
• Is committed to relationship-based practice and the principles of Family Safeguarding.
• Thrives in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Is confident in supporting and mentoring colleagues while leading by example.
• Can think creatively, make sound decisions and adapt to complex situations.
• Is passionate about continuous learning, development and improving outcomes for children.

If you're looking for a role where your expertise will be valued, your development supported and your impact truly felt, we'd love to hear from you.

Does this sound like somewhere you could flourish? Join us and help shape brighter futures for children with disabilities and their families across Peterborough.