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 Principal Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Cardiff.
Team/Specialism: Locality
Pay Rate: £38.15 per hour (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
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Duties:
- Focus on Court Work
- Be a case holding social worker working with approximately 10/11 children (4/5 families) who are subject to care proceedings
- Be responsible for all aspects of the case management including statutory visiting, care planning and review, and court
- Work with children and their families to assist in decision making for Children to remain at home or return home to their parents
- Work predominantly in a supervisory role, alongside case management of a small complex caseload, within one of our Locality Teams
- Work within a team of social workers, social work assistants and resource assistants (additional administrative support)
- Supervise a pod of social work assistants and lesser experienced social work staff
- Be responsible for conducting monthly supervision, chairing strategy meetings and attending joint visits
- Provide regular oversight of the Young People’s care plans through robust quality assurance of the Social Work Assistants work and attendance at relevant meetings such as Child Looked After Reviews
- Whilst the role is predominately non-caseholding, where concerns escalate in respect of Young People allocated to one of your supervisees you will be expected to take on allocation until risks have de-escalated to enable relocation to the Social Work Assistant or NQSW
Requirements of the Principal Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Have experience of working with children subject to care proceedings and their families and produce work of an excellent standard which provides recommendations based upon sound evidence based analysis
- Have undertaken assessments using the DOH Framework of assessment and have knowledge and understanding of the principals of the NSPCC Reunification framework
- Understand the impact of trauma both on parents’ capacity and on the child’s needs and be able to ascertain if the parent(s) has capacity to meet the needs of the individual child
- The skills to overcome barriers to engagement during the assessment process and tailor your assessments to the learning styles of parents
Contact:
This Principal 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.
