Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews has an exciting Permanent opportunity available for experienced Senior Social Workers to join a well-established Children’s service based in Northampton.
Team/Specialism: Safeguarding
Salary: £43,158.00 - £45,204.00 per annum, plus £6,000 welcome bonus
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Benefits:
- Highly competitive salaries and benefits
- £6,000 Welcome Bonus
- Retention Bonus
- Costs of Social Work England registration covered
- 27 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays, an additional 5 days after 5 years’ service
- Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
- Subsidised local authority pension scheme
- Free Car Parking (Daventry) and £20 per month subsidised in Northampton TC
- Shops close by
- Fantastic Induction Programme
- Practice Educator Qualifications
- Monthly high quality supervision
- Mandatory Signs of Safety training
- Fantastic Maternity Benefits with an additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
- Employee discount scheme offering a range of discounts from travel to shopping
- Up to £8,000 relocation costs
- Opportunities to regularly engage with the CEO and leadership team
Duties:
- Responsible for providing practical and social work support for children, young people and families
- Holding a more complex caseload
- Undertaking assessments, visiting children and their families, carrying out interventions, reviewing the work undertaken, direct work with children, young people and families and any other work identified as necessary
- Offer mentoring, work-shadowing/work experience opportunities and study towards the Practice Educator qualification and post qualifying modules
Requirements of the Senior Social Workers:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Have gained extensive post qualification experience of children and families social work within a statutory or voluntary organisation and will have proven ability to relate professionally with children and families evidenced through previous work as a Social Worker
- Have knowledge of the main issues in relation to your own client group
- Have awareness of the main legislative framework within which the role operates and knowledge of the range of services which are available to children and families and of the organisational framework within which they are provided
- Experience of supporting more junior roles in a social work environment would be desirable as well as knowledge of the range of services which are available to children and families and of the organisational framework within which they are provided
Contact:
These Senior Social Worker jobs are advertised by Lucy Pearson; if you are interested in these positions please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified, Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service or Director.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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.
