Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Social Worker within the Permanence (CIC) Team to work full time based in Gloucestershire.
The salary for this permanent Senior Social Worker job is up to £50,428 per annum.
Main duties:
- Manage a caseload with a high level of complexity and risk including those children subject to care proceedings and child protection plans.
- Act in a consultative role to less experienced social workers to ensure reflective practice in all single or multi-agency assessments, including the development of outcome focussed plans. This will include supporting less experienced staff with court proceedings, chairing core group and multi-agency meetings, and facilitating family group meetings.
- Responsible for modelling a high standard of practice in relation to own casework, including good quality case recording and report writing.
- Provide mentoring and specialist consultation or advice to colleagues and other professionals.
- To undertake direct work with children, young people and families in order to manage risk and achieve the sustained and positive outcomes identified in assessments and plans.
- Maintain and facilitate professional working relationships with all stake holders to ensure the effective delivery of services.
- Support advanced practitioners to improve social work practice.
- To undertake training and development as required including on going post qualification professional development.
- Be accountable for own practice ensuring it is of high quality and reflect bests practice.
- Support, promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people.
Requirements of this Senior Social Worker role:
- A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Extensive experience working in a statutory social care setting with children and families.
- Communicates skilfully and confidently, building relationships and maintaining engagement in complex, high risk or hostile situations.
Contact:
This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.
