Adult Social Worker - Locality Team

Location Gloucester
Job type Permanent
Salary £36,648 - 38,223 per year
Consultant Keir Turnbull
Call +44 7700 161043
Reference 223166

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Worker within the Locality Team to work Full Time based in Gloucestershire.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £38,223per annum.

Main duties:

  • Take a strengths-based approach, which seeks to be inclusive, anti-discriminatory, and anti-oppressive within practice.
  • To practice in a professionally curious manner, feeling confident to ask difficult questions in a supportive, person-centred manner.
  • Prioritise support people in crisis to regain control of their lives, taking a holistic approach in working together to achieve effective plans to balance risk and ensure people are more stable and enabled to live their lives.
  • To coordinate and manage section 42 safeguarding enquiries and complex, high-risk situations, utilising professional judgement throughout.
  • To develop and maintain an in-depth knowledge of local resources, working collaboratively with teams and services both within and outside of Gloucestershire.
  • To be an active participate of your team, supporting the development of others and committed to own professional development to deliver the best quality practice for the people of Gloucestershire.
  • To take ownership of and responsibility for delivering against team and individual performance targets. Translating data and maintaining an awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps and seeking to address these.
  • To contribute to the development of the service by communicating new ideas, through means such as briefings, completion of council surveys, and team members.
  • To develop and maintain good working relationships with other professionals within the team, wider service area, and partner agencies to ensure an integrated, holistic and Multi-Disciplinary approach.

Requirements of this Social Worker role:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.

Benefits Gloucestershire Offers:

  • Golden Hello & Annual Retention Allowance.
  • Merited pay scheme.
  • 30 days Annual Leave.
  • The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme.
  • Excellent training and career development pathway.
  • Free Car Parking at Bromley Civic Centre.
  • The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance.
  • Relocation Allowance (up to £8,000) for successful candidates relocating from overseas or the outer southeast area.
  • A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.
  • Benefit scheme also includes a range of discounts at local retailers.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.