Senior Social Worker - Children with Disabilities

Location Hillingdon
Job type Permanent
Salary £44,628 per year
Reference 183953

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews has an exciting permanent opportunity available for an experienced Social Worker to join a well-established Children’s service based in Hillingdon.

Team/Specialism: Children with Disabilities

Salary: £44,628 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time 

Benefits:

  • Local government average salary pension scheme
  • Free parking (4 days a week) if based at the Civic Centre
  • A 36-hour week for all full-time staff
  • Generous holiday entitlement: a minimum 25 days a year (plus bank holidays), rising to 28 days after five years' service. For more senior positions holiday entitlements can rise to a maximum of 36 days
  • Career breaks
  • Flexible working hours
  • Season ticket loan
  • Access to a Credit Union
  • Access to a wide range of training and courses
  • Discount on a variety of Adult Education courses run by the Council
  • Payment of professional fees where these are required
  • Discounts at council-owned leisure centres and swimming pools at Hillingdon (Uxbridge), Queensmead (South Ruislip), Highgrove (Ruislip) and Botwell Green (Hayes)
  • Cycle purchase scheme
  • Car sharing scheme
  • 30% discount on green fees at council-owned golf courses

Main Duties:

  • Manage social work caseload of more complex nature and with high levels of autonomy.
  • Provide expert professional and technical advice to other Social Workers, managers, colleagues and partners.
  • Provide professional supervision of other Social Workers (circa 3-6), supporting caseload management and promoting reflective practice and continuous professional development.
  • Demonstrate skilled use of range of frameworks for assessment and intervention.
  • Model and help others develop social work professionalism and effective caseload management.
  • Establish network of internal and external colleagues to support effective practice

Requirements of the Social Worker:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current Social Work England registration
  • Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services

Contact:

This Social Worker job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified, Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service or Director.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent 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.

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