Senior Social Worker - Mental Health & Personality Disorder Team

Location United Kingdom
Job type Permanent
Salary £43.5k per year
Consultant Zehnn Young
Call +44 7723 457338
Reference 216611

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Mental Health & Personality Disorder Team to work Full Time based in Elysium Healthcare.

The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £43,500 per annum.

Main duties:

  • Managing a small established team consisting of one qualified SW and one Social Work Assistant.
  • Facilitating access to welfare rights, housing, advocacy services and associated support services.
  • Participation in and provision of 1:1 supervision.
  • Reporting to safeguarding agencies and regulatory bodies.
  • Attending Safeguarding meetings with Local Authorities.
  • Educating hospital staff about relevant safeguarding matters.
  • As a Senior Social Worker sither the NHS or private care with experience of managing a complex caseload and being responsible for various social care assessments, you will build positive and professional working relationships, whilst focusing on personalisation and recovery to make positive, self-directed change. This can include family-focussed work to support and optimise involvement and collaborative solutions.
  • As a Senior member of the team, you must be confident and able to support and provide guidance to your team members, as your main role will be within the Acute wards but will also require you to have oversight of the other service areas.

Benefits:

  • Annual salary of up to £43,500 (Depending on experience).
  • The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
  • Free meals and parking.
  • Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
  • Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
  • Pension contribution to secure your future.
  • Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
  • Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:

  • A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Relevant Social Work experience.

Contact:

This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.