Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Mental Health Forensic Social Work Team to work Part Time (22.5 Hours) for Cambridgeshire.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £45,987 per annum.
Main duties:
- To provide professional leadership in situations which have highly complex case arrangements for assessment and support planning in situations which involve risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
- To provide written and verbal reports which are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence.
- Complete support planning with service users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptation and enabling programmes.
- Assess and balance risk and protective factors within a safeguarding framework.
- To provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge of Adult Services user groups and to make independent decisions.
- Taking responsibility for professional development and training needs of direct reports through appropriate training, mentoring and supervision.
- To lead the induction of Social Workers and support worker colleagues as required.
- Take a lead role in the development of quality assurance systems within the team, ensuring the team achieve the Performance Indicators and Quality Assurance standards.
- Work in partnership with other organisations at a strategic level to achieve positive outcomes for service users and carers.
- To take a key role in promoting and developing service user empowerment and recognise diversity and anti-discriminatory practice in all professional practice in the team.
- Keep and maintain accurate service user records, in line with professional requirements and departmental recording methods.
- To be aware of the responsibilities to maintain a safe and healthy environment for visitors and staff.
- Carry out duties in a timely and responsive manner, in line with CCC Standards, the Professional Capability Framework and CCC’s behaviours – working together, integrity, respect at work, excellence.
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 role 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.
