Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Family Safeguarding Team to work Full Time based in Berkshire.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £45,411 per annum.
Main duties:
- Manage an allocated appropriate to the extensive experience of the Senior Social Worker, to include complex assessments of children, families and parenting and other work to meet statutory requirements.
- Work within West Berkshire policies, procedures and good practice guidelines in order to meet the needs of the children and families allocated.
- Work with children and young people, families, carers and communities to help them make informed decisions, engender change enabling them to clarity and express their needs, and contribute to service planning.
- Maintain up to date case notes and other records and write reports, including court reports, and give evidence in court.
- Undertake specialist assessments, for your and other workers cases, for court proceedings, including parenting and kinship assessments.
- Ensure that casework is up to date, comprehensively written up, and managed within agreed timescales.
- When working with families, to recognise monitor and assess risk. To ensure information about risk is escalated to managers in a timely manner.
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships with service users and other professionals.
- Keep up to date with contemporary issues in children’s social work including legislation and evidence-based practice and us this to inform working practice.
- Liaise with colleagues in own and other directorate’s and external agencies to gather information to inform assessment and care planning activities, jointly plan and deliver interventions.
- Participate in planning/reviewing the cases of children in care, child protection and support fostering/adoption arrangements.
- Provide constructive challenge to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working.
- Lead and monitor multi-agency actions and objectives.
- Provide leadership and professional wisdom to colleagues and other professionals for work in situations of high complexity.
- Carry out any other duties, commensurate with the post, as may be required for the efficient running of the service.
- The post holder will work in the context of relevant legislation and West Berkshire Council policy and procedures.
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Benefits:
- Flexible working wherever possible between the hours of 07.00-19.00
- Hybrid working wherever possible working 40% in the office
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
- Generous Local Government pension scheme
- Family friendly policies
- A range of local discounts
- Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistance Programme and employee benefits
- You will also be entitled to a generous annual leave entitlement starting at 29 days per annum (plus public holidays) Rising by an additional 5 days after 5 years’ service.
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.
