Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Consultant Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Croydon. Hybrid working.
Pay Rate: £38.50 per hour (assignment rate)
Team/Specialism: Family Assessment
Contract: Locum, 6-Months
Hours: Full-time. 36 hours per week.
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable) and extensive equipment provided.
- Revalidation/registration renewal based on length of service
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience recruiting to social work roles (public & private sector)
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
- Access to our online careers hub
Duties:
- Building effective relationships with children, families, and other professionals
- Make sound professional judgments (in cases of high risk / complexity)
- Be responsible for supporting practice development via leadership of elements of casework, individual and group coaching, reflective supervision’ quality assurance and workshops in the specific area of expertise
- Directly support the delivery, and contribute to the delivery of, positive safety and well-being outcomes for children in need and their families, including those in need of protection and those looked after
- Developing the practice skills and efficacy of social workers through expert reflective supervision, coaching and joint working – individually and in groups
- Driving and continually developing the implementation into practice of Systemic Practice and other theoretical frameworks and practice methodologies
- In parts of the practice system holding a small caseload of high complexity / high risk cases
Requirements of the Consultant Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Advanced training in evidenced based approaches to assessment & intervention
- Experience of delivering evidenced based interventions with children and families improving outcomes
- Ability to assess the needs of children, adults, and families holistically and analytically, in high risk and high complexity cases, applying the Assessment Framework and other relevant frameworks and tools
- Have a high level of skills in all areas of practice
- Enhanced DBS
Contact:
This Consultant Social Worker job is advertised by Adam Howlett; 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.
