Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Advanced Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Mold.
Team/Specialism: Children & Families
Pay Rate: £31.63 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
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- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
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- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
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- Professional Development: Working as a locum in Social Work provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties:
- Provide a comprehensive social work service in a variety of settings within a framework of relevant legislation and procedures, supporting children, young people, families and groups within the community. Social Workers will take responsibility for a caseload according to qualifications and experience
- Form, develop and maintain professional relationships with children and young people and their families through direct casework, supervision, shared activity and counselling, in such a way that the child/young person’s family’s needs are met
- Provide a service, which meets primary needs, promotes development, and assists behavioural difficulties and vulnerabilities
- Identify and assess risk of abuse, failure to protect, or harm to children
- Advise senior managers as to any concerns in respect of children/young people with particular reference to there being at risk of abuse or harm
- Identify, contribute to and suggest ideas for good practice and its development, and to take a lead in a special area of responsibility
- Value, recognise and respect the diversity, expertise and experience of individuals, families and carers and enable them to make informed decisions and express their needs
- Challenge discrimination, disadvantage and other forms of inequality, injustice and oppressive practice
- Maximise the financial and material resources available to service users and carer(s) from all possible sources and ensure value for money care packages
- Ensure that service users and carers are aware of the Department’s Complaints procedures
- Case manage child protection work
- Establish good practice by example
- Provide verbal and written information to aid care planning activities and to provide evidence for assessment of need and care plan approaches
- Implement designated actions from care plans
- Gather and interpret information on agreed criteria related to the care of a client or implementation of procedures
- Lead meetings to define care planning activities and to evaluate evidence for assessment of need and care plan approaches
- Set up mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating delegated actions from care plans
- Derive and interpret information related to the care of a service user or implementation of procedures
- Communicate effectively and in the best interests of the client in case conferences, planning meetings, discussions with clients/families, inter-agency personnel, team members and in staff supervision
- If required, to give evidence in court in relation to care
- Work within established protocols, negotiate expectations/roles in liaison with others, e.g. in the key worker role / in multi agency working
- Represent the Team as required on behalf of a service user - this includes representing individuals and the dept/team in meetings/conference
- Attend child protection meetings
- Appropriately challenge the judgements and decisions of others where there is evidence that the needs of those you are working with are not being met
Requirements of the Advanced Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
- Understand the changing culture, health and social needs of the locality to inform current and future practice and service provision
Contact:
This Advanced Social Worker job is advertised by Kelly Page; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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.
