Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Kinship Service 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:
- Work collaboratively with colleagues in social work teams across Children’s Services, partner agencies including the agency’s legal department, Meical Advisor and fostering panel, as well as external agencies and courts involved in care planning, placement and review of children with connected persons or mainstream foster carers.
- In collaboration with colleagues in Children’s services and external agencies, coordinate the statutory checks of potential foster carers, Special Guardians and their household members to ensure their approved in compliance with the Fostering Regulations and within court directed timescales.
- Undertake the full range of social work tasks involved in maintaining and reviewing the approval of foster carers, to ensure they remain fit to foster and their approval terms remain relevant.
- Monitor the safer care practice of foster carers that ensure children in their care are safeguarded, and work in partnership with foster carers, colleagues, children’s social workers, LADO and partner agencies to address and investigate any safeguarding concerns.
- 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 adults service.
- Participate positively in professional supervision and annual appraisal (PrP) review, taking personal responsibility for the quality of practice.
- Build professional credibility within the multi-professional partnership by achieving practice standards and meeting performance targets consistently, providing accredited practice teaching as required.
- Develop an excellent knowledge base of and collaborative working with local preventative and targeted family support services, particularly those provided by the voluntary and community sector.
- Contribute to the review of Council policies and procedures, particularly guidance and protocols for social workers.
- Enhance and promote the reputation of the Council as a provider of high quality services to children and families.
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:
- A professional 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.
