Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Brief Intervention Team to work full time based in Wandsworth.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £55,003 per annum.
Main duties:
- Act as the lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified/senior social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children’s cases.
- Undertake the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families, assessment, planning, implementation and review.
- Bring together and co-ordinate the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to APIR and safeguarding.
- Establish and develop collaborative working with allied health and social care practitioners from children’s and adult’s services.
- Promote and model effective working arrangements with schools, children’s centres and other settings.
- Develop a good understanding of evidence-based practice and integrate models of best practice into day to day service delivery.
- Actively contribute to team working, supporting colleagues, covering for colleagues in their absence and taking part in team meetings and development events.
- Develop professional expertise in at least one of the key risk factors affecting the welfare of children, parental alcohol/substance misuse, parental mental health problems, domestic abuse, learning difficulties and homelessness.
- Understand, promote and integrate into practice Council policies in relation to valuing diversity and promoting equalities.
- This profile is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties the post holder will carry out. Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.
Requirements of this role:
- A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.
