Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Assessment & Intervention Team to work full time based in Chichester, West Sussex.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £48,474 per annum.
Main duties:
- Act as a senior professional representative for the service by working with a focus on ensuring the effective delivery of services to those people who access or need the service.
- Manage and advise on complex cases within a specialist area including working alongside many other agencies, dealing with complex family dynamics, managing complex risk levels and dealing with legal issues. This will include effectively leading on the most efficient use of resources to produce the appropriate outcome and staff management.
- Take a lead and proactive role within the discipline of a specialist area, this may involve being dedicated representative for a particular forum or being at the forefront of developments within a particular field.
- Develop effective working relationships and communicate effectively with those people who access or need the service, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals in order to deliver the appropriate interventions and service delivery.
- Responsible for the adoption of business and leadership changes and resources deployment as direct. Identify any issues of service delivery and its development paying attention to business plans. Identify gaps and seek to fill needs on service development.
- Lead in initiatives and development work as required.
- Represent the service at events and meetings with external agencies, making commitments as direct and agreed.
- Maintain accurate records of all work undertaken and produce case reports and correspondence for a variety of audiences including meetings, conferences, court, panels and other agencies. Monitor colleagues, record keeping as part of supervision.
- Responsible for the professional supervision of Social Work professionals and unregistered practitioners, including contributing to the performance management and professional development of those staff. This will include mentoring/coaching colleagues and assisting with the setting and monitoring targets and objectives to ensure a fully effective team, as required.
- Responsible for the care of, accuracy, confidentiality, security and maintenance of all individuals, records and related manual and/or computerised information, including highly sensitive and confidential adult/child protection issues.
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Senior 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.
