Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Connected Persons Team to work Full Time based in Slough.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £52,037per annum.
Main duties:
- Be central point of contact, collation and completion of SGO, Kinship and Connected Persons assessments, following a positive viability assessment.
- Conduct joint viabilities with allocated social worker.
- Undertake SGO and Connected Persons assessments, including Private assessment and SGO/child arrangement orders.
- Review case records and the assessment of the children needs.
- Undertake assessment visits.
- Observe contact with applicants and children.
- Propose transition plan with allocated social worker.
- Undertake referee visits for the applicants, children and adult children within the home.
- Prepare the court report and SGO support plan.
- Attend associated professional meetings as required, including Court.
- Organise and deliver trainee preparation workshops for prospective Special Guardians, family and friends.
- Work with child care teams, IRO and fostering teams.
- Record details of assessments of ICS.
- Wherever possible, generate leads for potential new foster carers and home from home carers.
- Ensure the safeguarding of children/young people in line with the role and responsibilities.
- Deputise for the Connected Persons Practice Manager as and when required.
- Undertake any other duties as commensurate with the level of responsibility of the role.
- Adhere to all legislation in terms of practice, policies and procedures for the role including the National Minimum Standards for Fostering and the SWE standards.
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker 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.
